baller
/ˈbɔːlɚ/
baller noun: a kitchenware utensil for cutting ball-shaped pieces of foods. Also the ellipsis of baller band.
Noun
baller (plural ballers)
- A kitchenware utensil for cutting ball-shaped pieces of foods.
- fruit baller
- A person employed to divide molten metal into separate balls before it is hammered out.
- One who plays basketball (US) or association football (UK).
- I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller.1995, Skee-Lo, “I Wish”
- I want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers, doctors and teachers, not just ballers and rappers.2009 July 17, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Obama Tells Fellow Blacks: ‘No Excuses’ for Any Failure”, in New York Times
- One who has swag and lives an extravagant lifestyle.
- Did you see that car? He’s such a baller.
- Now… what y'all wanna do? / Wanna be ballers? Shot-callers? Brawlers?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.
- A person having sex.
- Synonyms:
- bedder, consummator, copulator, fucker, humper, intercourser, lovemaker, lover, shagger
Adjective
baller (comparative more baller, superlative most baller)
- Very cool, especially due to extravagance.
- All you baller playa's got some insecurities too / That you could cover up, bling it up, cash in and cha-ching it up2004, “Black Stacey”, in Saul Williams, performed by Saul Williams
- (Being an OG is not as baller as you'd think.)2014, Kele Moon, The Viper, →ISBN
Proper noun capitalized: Baller
Baller (plural Ballers)
- A surname from German.
Also used as
baller is also the ellipsis of baller band.
Examples of baller in a sentence
- But you really wouldn't mind a millionaire / All them big ballers / Don't do nothing for ya / But you'd love a rich man six-foot-two or taller2004, Amy Winehouse, Salaam Remi, “Fuck Me Pumps”, in Frank, performed by Amy Winehouse:
- 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.2015 December 11, Viputheshwar Sitaraman, “Q&A: Mahbod Moghadam — Cofounder, Everipedia”, in HuffPost:
- They put a security guard in front of our booth, which felt very baller.2016, Andy Cohen, Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries, →ISBN:
Synonyms of baller
Forms of baller
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ballers |
| alternative form | balla |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more baller |
| superlative | most baller |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Ballers |
Origin of baller
From ball + -er. The sense referring to extravagance comes from NBA b-ballers being wealthy.
A variant of the English surname Ball, with a suffix -er. Also borrowed from German Baller.
Words formed from baller
Phrases with baller
Questions about baller
- What does baller mean?
- Baller means a kitchenware utensil for cutting ball-shaped pieces of foods.
- How do you use baller in a sentence?
- But you really wouldn't mind a millionaire / All them big ballers / Don't do nothing for ya / But you'd love a rich man six-foot-two or taller
- What part of speech is baller?
- Baller can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce baller?
- Baller is pronounced /ˈbɔːlɚ/.
- What is the plural of baller?
- The plural of baller is ballers.
Words near baller in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: baller (page history and authors); Baller (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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