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high liver

noun

, Informal.
  1. a person who lives extravagantly or luxuriously.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of high liver1

First recorded in 1880–85

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Example Sentences

By adopting the cognomen of Habrodiaitos, or high-liver, he brought upon himself the nickname of Rhabdodiaitos, or brush-man.

Mouillot is still a high liver, Balivan as distraught as ever, and Duptrain still insists on putting people to sleep.

If the high-liver knew when to stop eating, how much less sure dyspepsia would be.

One of the men was an exuberant old high liver, whose name she had read with awe on many a beautiful picture.

Stubb was a high liver; he was somewhat intemperately fond of the whale as a flavorish thing to his palate.

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