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[ US /ˈbɔki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. stopping short and refusing to go on
    a balky mule
    a balking
    a balky customer

How To Use balky In A Sentence

  • The biggest obstacle that could keep Hernandez from finishing strong is a balky knee.
  • Other than a balky elevator, the only real link between the two films is choreographer Hermes Pan, who was Fred's right-hand man throughout the Ginger years.
  • A student assistant with computing skills can help with restarting a balky workstation or writing a Web page.
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  • It had been left intact as a backup to the balky original warp field.
  • Their capsule will carry up more spare parts for the balky oxygen generator, but have room for little else.
  • a balky mule
  • Williams also recalled a balky computer system that routinely displayed nothing but a blue screen and a system to removed gases from the rig's drilling shack that had been in a bypass mode for five years. Hispanic Business Magazine
  • Phillips performed some on-the-spot maintenance of a balky treadmill today.
  • A balky putter is what kept Dunlap picking his spots these last few years, still circling the globe like some Ulysses in cleats. One guy who refused to wilt
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