balls vs dare

balls

verb
  • Speaking or acting with bravado to achieve (something) 

  • To engage in sexual intercourse. 

noun
  • A balls-up; a botched job. 

  • The testicles. 

  • Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazeness. 

  • Synonym of bollocks, nonsense. 

adv
  • Very. Intensifier. 

dare

verb
  • To defy or challenge (someone to do something) 

  • To terrify; to daunt. 

  • To have enough courage (to do something). 

  • To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to 

  • To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. 

noun
  • The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. 

  • A challenge to prove courage. 

  • In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players. 

  • A small fish, the dace 

  • Defiance; challenge. 

How often have the words balls and dare occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )