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Definition of Ballers
1. baller [n] - See also: baller
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ballers
Literary usage of Ballers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"The evening air was pale and chilly and after every charge and thud of the
foot-ballers the greasy leather orb flew like a heavy bird through the grey light ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Both these works served their time, but were finally superseded on the revival
of Christian and church life in Denmark. ballers position among the bishops ..."
3. Diary and correspondence of samuel pepys f.r.s.. by Samuel Pepys (1854)
"And here I first understood by their talk the meaning of the company that lately
were called ballers; Harris telling how it was by a meeting of some young ..."
4. Life and Labour of the People in London by Charles Booth (1903)
"... who testified. ballers testified—spoke myself on Prodigals—had two at
Mercy-seat —one from a Lodging-house—found he was a poor backslider. ..."
5. Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830 by John Genest (1832)
"... and Gifford— the ballers, whom Pepys describes, (May 30 1668) exhibited
themselves at Lady Bennet's—In the Epilogue to the Mock Empress of Morocco 1674, ..."
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