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ballin' en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

Pronunciation spelling of balling. From basketballing, from basketball (referring to the high pay of professional basketballers).

Meanings

  1. (Multicultural-London-English, not-comparable, qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang) Having an ostentatiously wealthy lifestyle.
    • My niggas is ballin' / You niggas is hatin' / Cameras everywhere I go. 2011, Meek Mill [Robert Williams], “I'm Me”, in Dreamchasers:
    • Now this niggah home and gettin' it, rockin the new tinted-out Q45, new kicks and throwbacks every day, draped in jewels. The niggah was ballin'. 2007, Edd McNair, Turning Point:

Relateds

b-ball · baller · ballin' the jack · balling · ball