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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