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highball
[ hahy-bawl ]
noun
- a drink of whiskey mixed with club soda or ginger ale and served with ice in a tall glass.
- Railroads.
- a signal to start a train, given with the hand or with a lamp.
- a signal for a train to move at full speed.
- Military Slang. a hand salute.
verb (used without object)
- Slang. to move at full speed.
verb (used with object)
- to signal to (the engineer of a train) to proceed.
highball
/ ˈhaɪˌbɔːl /
noun
- a long iced drink consisting of a spirit base with water, soda water, etc
- (originally in railway use) a signal that the way ahead is clear and one may proceed
verb
- intr to move at great speed
- tr to drive (a vehicle) at great speed
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of highball1
C19: (in sense 2) from the early railway signal consisting of a ball hoisted to the top of a pole
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Example Sentences
Pursuit of happiness at our house involved a highball for Dad and an Old Fashioned for Mom.
From The Daily Beast
Having completed her quorum, and distributed her tickets, Mrs. Neff made ready to depart by attacking her highball again.
From Project Gutenberg
She put out her hand to him, but he did not see it; he set off to find some one to lead him to a Scotch highball.
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Say, they had a highball or that,—all he had to do was to drop the tiniest speck from the little vial into the drink.
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I believe you had reached the highball incident in your recital.
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It is not particularly significant that I started the summer on Highball and ended it on Budweiser.
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