# baller
## English
### Alternative forms

* balla (all senses except "person who divides molten metal")

### Etymology

From ball +‎ -er. The sense referring to extravagance comes from NBA b-ballers being wealthy.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔːlɚ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔːlɚ

### Noun

baller (plural ballers)
* A kitchenware utensil for cutting ball-shaped pieces of foods.
    Hyponym: melon baller
    fruit baller
* A person employed to divide molten metal into separate balls before it is hammered out.
* (slang) One who plays basketball (US) or association football (UK).
    Hypernyms: player, athlete
    Hyponyms: basketball player, basketballer, hooper; football player, footballer
** 1995, Skee-Lo (lyrics and music), “I Wish”‎:I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller.
** 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.
* (African-American Vernacular, slang) One who has swag and lives an extravagant lifestyle.
    Did you see that car? He’s such a baller.
** 1997, “It's All About the Benjamins”, in No Way Out, performed by Puff Daddy ft. Lil' Kim, the Lox, and The Notorious B.I.G.:Now… what y'all wanna do? / Wanna be ballers? Shot-callers? Brawlers?
* (vulgar) A person having sex.

### Adjective

baller (comparative more baller, superlative most baller)
* (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.

### Related terms

* ball
* ballin'

### See also

* (AAVE): playa, player; live large
* footballer

### Anagrams

* Bellar

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

baller
* to dance with one's arms swinging
* to swing or sway; to dangle

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “baller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## German
### Verb

baller
* inflection of ballern:
** first-person singular present
** singular imperative

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

baller m
* indefinite plural of ball

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* ball

#### Noun

baller n
* indefinite plural of ball (Etymology 2)