baller
See also: Baller
English
Alternative forms
- balla (all senses except "person who divides molten metal")
Etymology
ball + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɔːlə(ɹ)/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːlə(ɹ)
Noun
baller (plural ballers)
- A person employed to divide molten metal into separate balls before it is hammered out.
- (slang) One who plays basketball; a basketballer.
- 2009 July 17, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Obama Tells Fellow Blacks: ‘No Excuses’ for Any Failure”, in New York Times:
- I want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers, doctors and teachers, not just ballers and rappers.
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- (African-American Vernacular, slang) One who has swag and lives an extravagant lifestyle.
- Did you see that car? He’s such a baller.
- 1997, “It's All About the Benjamins”, in No Way Out, performed by Puff Daddy ft. Lil' Kim, the Lox and the Notorious B.I.G.:
- Now… what y'all wanna do? / Wanna be ballers? Shot-callers? Brawlers?
- (vulgar) A person having sexual intercourse
Adjective
baller (comparative more baller, superlative most baller)
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Very cool, especially due to extravagance.
- 2004, “Black Stacey”, in Saul Williams, performed by Saul Williams:
- All you baller playa's got some insecurities too / That you could cover up, bling it up, cash in and cha-ching it up
- 2014, Kele Moon, The Viper, →ISBN:
- (Being an OG is not as baller as you'd think.)
- 2015 December 11, Viputheshwar Sitaraman, “Q&A: Mahbod Moghadam — Cofounder, Everipedia”, in HuffPost:
- The most baller Los Angeles investor, Paige Craig, doesn’t have a Wikipedia page, but you can find out everything about him on his Everipedia page. Are you going to be pitching him?
- 2016, Andy Cohen, Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries, →ISBN:
- Had dinner with the Arkins at Giuliana's restaurant, RPM, which is like a nightclub. They put a security guard in front of our booth, which felt very baller.
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Related terms
- ball
- ballin'
See also
- (AAVE): playa, player; live large
- melon baller
- footballer
Anagrams
- Bellar
French
Etymology
From Late Latin ballāre, from Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”). Compare Spanish bailar, Italian ballare.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
baller
- to dance with one's arms swinging
- to swing or sway; to dangle
Conjugation
Conjugation of baller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | baller | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | ballant /ba.lɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | ballé /ba.le/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | balle /bal/ | balles /bal/ | balle /bal/ | ballons /ba.lɔ̃/ | ballez /ba.le/ | ballent /bal/ |
imperfect | ballais /ba.lɛ/ | ballais /ba.lɛ/ | ballait /ba.lɛ/ | ballions /ba.ljɔ̃/ | balliez /ba.lje/ | ballaient /ba.lɛ/ | |
past historic2 | ballai /ba.le/ | ballas /ba.la/ | balla /ba.la/ | ballâmes /ba.lam/ | ballâtes /ba.lat/ | ballèrent /ba.lɛʁ/ | |
future | ballerai /bal.ʁe/ | balleras /bal.ʁa/ | ballera /bal.ʁa/ | ballerons /bal.ʁɔ̃/ | ballerez /bal.ʁe/ | balleront /bal.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | ballerais /bal.ʁɛ/ | ballerais /bal.ʁɛ/ | ballerait /bal.ʁɛ/ | ballerions /ba.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ | balleriez /ba.lə.ʁje/ | balleraient /bal.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | balle /bal/ | balles /bal/ | balle /bal/ | ballions /ba.ljɔ̃/ | balliez /ba.lje/ | ballent /bal/ |
imperfect2 | ballasse /ba.las/ | ballasses /ba.las/ | ballât /ba.la/ | ballassions /ba.la.sjɔ̃/ | ballassiez /ba.la.sje/ | ballassent /ba.las/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | balle /bal/ | — | ballons /ba.lɔ̃/ | ballez /ba.le/ | — | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “baller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Verb
baller
- inflection of ballern:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
baller m
- indefinite plural of ball
Alternative forms
- ball
Noun
baller n
- indefinite plural of ball (Etymology 2)