baller
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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[1]:
- I want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers, doctors and teachers, not just ballers and rappers.
- (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)
- (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.
- 2014, Kele Moon, The Viper →ISBN:
See also
- (AAVE): playa, player; live large
- melon baller
- footballer
Anagrams
French
Verb
baller
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). |
German
Verb
baller
- (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of ballern.
- (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of ballern.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Noun
baller m
- indefinite plural of ball
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Noun
baller n
- indefinite plural of ball (Etymology 2)
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