baller

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English

Etymology

ball +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɔːlə(ɹ)

Noun

baller (plural ballers)

  1. A person employed to divide molten metal into separate balls before it is hammered out.
  2. (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[1]:
      I want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers, doctors and teachers, not just ballers and rappers.
  3. (African-American Vernacular, slang) One who has swag and lives an extravagant lifestyle.
    Did you see that car? He’s such a baller.

Adjective

baller (comparative more baller, superlative most baller)

  1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Very cool, especially due to extravagance.
    • 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[2]:
      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.

See also

Anagrams

French

Verb

baller

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of baller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple baller
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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

German

Verb

baller

  1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of ballern.
  2. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of ballern.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

baller m

  1. indefinite plural of ball

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Noun

baller n

  1. indefinite plural of ball (Etymology 2)
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