Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ball-breaker

2 senses of ball-breaker

Sense 1
ball-buster, ball-breaker -- (a demanding woman who destroys men's confidence)
       => woman, adult female -- (an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted")

Sense 2
ball-buster, ball-breaker -- (a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing; "Vietnam was a ball-breaker")
       => job, task, chore -- (a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores")