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See also: Ballin and ballin

English

Etymology

Pronunciation spelling of balling. From basketballing, from basketball (referring to the high pay of professional basketballers).

Pronunciation

Adjective

ballin' (not comparable)

  1. (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang) Having an ostentatiously wealthy lifestyle.
    • 2007, Edd McNair, Turning Point:
      Now this niggah home and gettin' it, rockin the new tinted-out Q45, new kicks and throwbacks every day, draped in jewels. The niggah was ballin'.
    • 2011, Meek Mill , “I'm Me”, in Dreamchasers:
      My niggas is ballin' / You niggas is hatin' / Cameras everywhere I go.
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