When someone brings up a topic when talking but immediately drops it and refuses to switch back to the dropped topic.
> Conversational Blue Balls is when:
> "Goodness, did you hear about what happened?"
> "What happened?"
> "Anyways, I'm gonna go."
> "Wait, what happened?"
> "Oh, don't worry about it."

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学英语单词
-megaly
abbrevn
acute myelocytic leukemia
ageing failure
asbestos-cement slate
Atijo
authorized terms
autopsy start and end date/time
Baroknar
barton's
bear testimony to
Bielschowsky's diamine silver solution
brand character
British Standard Institution
cane level(l)ing machine
caseous
cassese
cataloging department
Catumbela
cock knocker
Code of Conduct for Liner Conference
congnois
cortical nephron
crowbar switch
cryaesthesias
diptercin
double roller mixer
drill headroom
Ebal
elementary contour
fault monitoring
fiber data link
folipex
four-cylinder triple-expansion engine
from all walks of life
Gaelicise
gairdners
gantos
gate conveyer
gay-lesbian student
gelatinous state
green restorer
header brick
history database
hollow core door
hydric sulphate
iduronate-2-sulfatase
large-type passenger plane
leptons
licks
lithol rubin b
Maengsangang
Makariv
mascaraing
media advocacy
megalomicin
metric series bearing
minor determinant
muffin top
multiple channels
nahla
nuchae necrotisans sycosis
off stream unit
panel research
parking area
Patesville
pearlite structure
pisscutter
pitted keratolysis
play up to sb
posterdesigned
premature contraction
pseudogenizations
put behind bars
reinspects
right and left-hand chart
scum of the earth
sheathing uranium
shortest path algorithm
slash-grain lumber
SRS (standard response spectrum)
Stenoptilia
strike sparks
suction velocity
sweat suits
tachygraph
taxol
tetraplodon urceolatus bryol eur
Titlagarh
Tomamae
tracking and data system
travel(l)ing winch
uniaxial spicule
upland cottons
vehicle operational mode
Vorster, Balthazar Johannes
walking about
wellhead device
wheel motor
World Trade Center Towers
Yathi
zarins