baller

See also: Baller

English

Alternative forms
  • balla (all senses except "person who divides molten metal")

Etymology

ball +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔːlə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • 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.
  4. (vulgar) A person having sexual intercourse

Adjective

baller (comparative more baller, superlative most baller)

  1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Very cool, especially due to extravagance.
    • 2004, “Black Stacey”, in Saul Williams, performed by Saul Williams:
      All you baller playa's got some insecurities too / That you could cover up, bling it up, cash in and cha-ching it up
    • 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.

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French

Etymology

From Late Latin ballāre, from Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”). Compare Spanish bailar, Italian ballare.

Pronunciation
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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).

Further reading

German

Verb

baller

  1. inflection of ballern:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative

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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