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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Slides material back and forth over heated, metal, ball-shaped form to smooth and press portions of garments that cannot be satisfactorily pressed with flat presser or hand iron. May use hand iron to complete pressing of garment. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Basketball (player). Definition: A talented basketball player. Context: Used in describing a talented basketball player. A form of praise. Social Source: Basketball Players. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
| Noun. Source: Comes from the word ball. Definition: Someone with money. Context: Mostly used just implying that a person has lots of money, or that the person is rich. Social Source: HIP-HOP . Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BALLER |
| Non-English Usage: "BALLER" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (dangle). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Gotta be the baller all night (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat) A baller, when times get hard ("Bills, Bills, Bills"; performing artist: Destiny's Child) Every Baller Dat Can Afford It They Cop Da Best Ride (Pu**y; performing artist: R. Kelly) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Baller Blockin' (2000) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BALLER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BALLER" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BALLER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Baller | Last name | 170 | 44,632 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "BALLER": baller mistress ♦ spit baller. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BALLER": five-baller, melon-baller. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "BALLER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | opsamlepresser med ballekaster (pick-up baller with ball thrower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | opraappers met pakkengooier (pick-up baller with ball thrower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | ramasseuse-presse avec lanceur de balles (pick-up baller with ball thrower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Aufsammelpresse mit Ballenwerfer (pick-up baller with ball thrower), Aufsammelpresse mit Ballenschleuder (pick-up baller with ball thrower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | χορτο-συλλεκτο-δετική με εκτοξευτή δεμάτων (pick-up baller with ball thrower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | raccogli-imballatrice con lanciaballe (pick-up baller with ball thrower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | allerbay enfardadeira com lançador de fardos (pick-up baller with ball thrower). (various references) recogedora-empacadora con lanzador de pacas (pick-up baller with ball thrower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BALLER": ballerina, ballerinas, ballers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "BALLER": broomballer, fastballer, fireballer, footballer, knuckleballer, softballer. (additional references) | |
Words containing "BALLER": broomballers, caballero, caballeros, fastballers, fireballers, footballers, knuckleballers, softballers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BALLER" (pronounced bô"ler) |
| 3 | -ô" l er | caller, faller, hauler, installer, mauler, smaller, taller, trawler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-l-r" | |
-1 letter: abler, baler, blare, blear, label. | |
-2 letters: able, bale, ball, bare, bear, bell, blae, brae, earl, leal, lear, rale, real. | |
-3 letters: alb, ale, all, arb, are, bal, bar, bel, bra, ear, ell, era, lab, lar, lea, reb. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, al, ar, ba, be, el, er, la, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-l-r" | |
+1 letter: ballers, barbell, braille, labeler, liberal, relabel, rubella, rulable. | |
+2 letters: balloter, ballsier, barbells, bargello, beadroll, blearily, brailled, brailles, brucella, fireball, furlable, harebell, labelers, labeller, liberals, reelable, relabels, reliable, reliably, rubellas, umbellar, umbrella, verbally. | |
+3 letters: alterable, alterably, balladeer, ballerina, balloters, bargellos, barrelful, barrelled, beadrolls, bilateral, brucellae, brucellas, caballero, cerebella, clearable, colorable, curveball, drillable, fibrillae, filtrable, fireballs, glabellar, harebells, illiberal, labellers, learnable, liberally, palpebral, relabeled, relatable, reliables, resalable, screwball, subcellar, tolerable, tolerably, umbrellas. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 4C 4C 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-.. .-.. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01001100 01001100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A L L E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 004C 004C 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)363546463952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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