balling n.
1. (orig. US black) having fun [ball v.2 ].
![]() | Amer. Mercury July 94: balling: having fun. | |
![]() | N.Y. Amsterdam News 5 Jan. 21: Talk about balling: this was it! [...] enough grub to straighten out an infantry division, plus cases of scotch, rye bourbon and gin. | |
![]() | N.Y. Amsterdam News 18 May 13: When the Chick wants to go, Jim, you say know [...] If she insists on balling, you start some squalling. | |
![]() | letter Sept. in Charters II (1999) 269: I tell you there’s just too much balling going on in the city itself altho I love it of course. | |
![]() | Airtight Willie and Me 57: You must be balling at Small’s Paradise, or maybe at the Cotton Club? | |
![]() | Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 ballin’ Definition: hanging out somewhere. Example: Hey B, We goin’ ballin’ tonight? | |
![]() | Night Gardener 245: Ballin [...] Goin to house parties and band shows. | |
![]() | Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 16: I no longer have just one pair of black pants to go partying in. I now have two pairs, one of them leather. I bought my first pair of gators and allat. Yeah baby, I am ball’n! |
2. (orig. US black) having sexual intercourse [ball v.3 ].
![]() | In the Life 155: Balling: necking, petting or having sexual intercourse. | |
![]() | How to Talk Dirty 75: A nutty-looking chick [...] who’s a real balling freak. | |
![]() | Sheeper 41: Negroes that never stopped balling. | |
![]() | Blue Movie (1974) 221: I mean, like I’ve been making some heavy trips, and, well, balling has gotten to be, you know, like kind of . . . ‘irrelevant’. | |
![]() | Bounty of Texas (1990) 197: balling, n. – sexual intercourse. | ‘Catheads [...] and Cho-Cho Sticks’ in Abernethy|
![]() | It (1987) 868: So that was Derry [...] all boom and balling. |
3. (US black) enriching oneself by selling drugs (usu. crack cocaine) [fig. use].
![]() | Source Nov. 72: Poignant messages about death, the penal system and the oft-times unglamorous side of ballin’. |
4. (US black) excelling in the playing of basketball [ball v.4 ].
![]() | Black Talk. |
5. (US drugs) carrying a package of contraband cocaine by placing it in the vagina [? f. sense 3 or the ball n.1 (4) that is hidden].
![]() | ONDCP Street Terms 2: Balling — Vaginally implanted cocaine. |
6. showing off, flaunting one’s possessions [fig. use].
![]() | Teen Lingo: The Source for Youth Ministry 🌐 ballin v. To flaunt money. To be noticeably rich. ‘Yo . . . check out his Mercedes . . . he is ballin!’. |