ballin'
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Etymology edit
Clipping of balling. From basketballing, from basketball (referring to the high play of professional basketballers).
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ballin' (not comparable)
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang) Having an ostentatiously wealthy lifestyle.
- 2007, Edd McNair, Turning Point:
- 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'.
- 2011, Meek Mill [Robert Williams] (lyrics and music), “I'm Me”, in Dreamchasers:
- My niggas is ballin' / You niggas is hatin' / Cameras everywhere I go.