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ace-high
[ eys-hahy, -hahy ]
adjective
- (of a poker hand) having an ace as the highest card.
- held in high esteem:
He has an ace-high reputation.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ace-high1
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Example Sentences
You've always been ace-high with me, and there never will come the day when you can't eat on my meal-ticket.
The Hawley doesn't take a fancy to every woman she sees—and, let me tell you, she stands ace-high in this country.
Used to call him his right bower—I mean his strong suit—I mean his two pair—ace high.
From the very first dose he was ace-high and everybody else looked like thirty cents to her.
N he bluffed forty pair of stockings outen a greenhorn on ace high.
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