ballin'

English

Etymology

balling (referring to the high pay of professional basketballers)

Adjective

ballin' (not comparable)

1. (African American Vernacular, 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'.

   • Meek Mill (Robert Williams), I'm Me (song)

     My niggas is ballin' / You niggas is hatin' / Cameras everywhere I go.

Related terms

• baller