baller

English

Etymology

ball +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • 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:
      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:
      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)
present participle ballant
/ba.lɑ̃/
past participle ballé
/ba.le/
infinitive
simple baller
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple ballant
/ba.lɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle 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 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

German

Verb

baller

  1. First-person singular present of ballern.
  2. Imperative singular of ballern.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

baller m

  1. indefinite plural of ball

Alternative forms

Noun

baller n

  1. indefinite plural of ball (Etymology 2)
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