baller

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English

Alternative forms

  • balla (all senses except "person who divides molten metal")

Etymology

ball +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔːlɚ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔːlɚ

Noun

baller (plural ballers)

  1. A kitchenware utensil for cutting ball-shaped pieces of foods.
    Hyponym: melon baller
    fruit baller
  2. A person employed to divide molten metal into separate balls before it is hammered out.
  3. (slang) One who plays basketball (US) or association football (UK); a basketballer or footballer.
    • 1995, Skee-Lo (lyrics and music), “I Wish”:
      I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller.
    • 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.
  4. (African-American Vernacular, slang) One who has swag and lives an extravagant lifestyle.
    Did you see that car? He’s such a baller.
  5. (vulgar) A person having sexual intercourse.

Adjective

baller (comparative more baller, superlative most baller)

  1. (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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French

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin ballāre, from Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō, to throw). Compare Spanish bailar, Italian ballare.

Pronunciation

Verb

baller

  1. to dance with one's arms swinging
  2. to swing or sway; to dangle

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German

Verb

baller

  1. inflection of ballern:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

baller m

  1. indefinite plural of ball

Etymology 2

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Noun

baller n

  1. indefinite plural of ball (Etymology 2)