[ US /ˈbɔki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. stopping short and refusing to go on
    a balky mule
    a balking
    a balky customer
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How To Use balky In A Sentence

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  • 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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