1.When somebody is Bitching at you for no good reason or nagging at you to do something you don't want to do.
by Mojo Maniac July 11, 2008
by Bang your dead September 04, 2006
"You're busting my balls Mario!"
by Bik Valbordo November 22, 2007
An often vital practice relating to relationship-maintenance. Relationship counselors broadly refer to this as preserving “healthy vulnerability,” or tletting down your guard, being completely honest,in order to demonstrate loyalty, love, trust, and willingness to self-sacrifice for a friend who might not immediately appreciate such risk, interpreting it instead as intrusiveness and abuse at first.
Theory: A constant background level of nagging can insure that when you do “lose your shit,” you will be around supportive friends who are willing to change your emotional diaper. The insult-trading practice of “Playing the dozens” use to serve a similar purpose in the Black community until it fell out of fashion due to its historically-repugnant origins in slavery (devaluation/objectification when slaves were bundled by the dozen). It's a social means to avoid the emptiness of “I’m fine” when checking in with a friend who may be too full of grit to want to burden others with personal problems. This is also why in New York City, “F*ck you!” and “F*ck you too!” have respectively come to replace “Hello my friend! Are you truly okay?” and “Why yes I am. Thank you for caring so sincerely and deeply!”
Theory: A constant background level of nagging can insure that when you do “lose your shit,” you will be around supportive friends who are willing to change your emotional diaper. The insult-trading practice of “Playing the dozens” use to serve a similar purpose in the Black community until it fell out of fashion due to its historically-repugnant origins in slavery (devaluation/objectification when slaves were bundled by the dozen). It's a social means to avoid the emptiness of “I’m fine” when checking in with a friend who may be too full of grit to want to burden others with personal problems. This is also why in New York City, “F*ck you!” and “F*ck you too!” have respectively come to replace “Hello my friend! Are you truly okay?” and “Why yes I am. Thank you for caring so sincerely and deeply!”
Busting My Balls:
Tony and Vincenzo were busting each other's balls until Vincenzo broke down and admitted he he had to put down his 25-year old retriever, Zeus, today. We should bring him some Stromboli and get blotto with him later.
Tony and Vincenzo were busting each other's balls until Vincenzo broke down and admitted he he had to put down his 25-year old retriever, Zeus, today. We should bring him some Stromboli and get blotto with him later.
by metadrool November 11, 2021
Someone who is willing to be a bufffer between two people busting each other's balls and or driving eachother insane. The BMBB is typically a child(over 18) or grandchild(over 18) willing to step in and “say separate corners people!”
by Ariel PlusSure December 04, 2017