Highball

Quick meaning: Highball is a noun meaning A cocktail made from a spirit plus soda water etc.

Meaning

A cocktail made from a spirit plus soda water etc.

More Meanings

1. (rail transport, US) An all clear or full speed ahead signal.
2. (climbing) A very high bouldering problem, often with a hard landing.
3. Clipping of highball glass, a tall glass tumbler used for serving highballs.
4. To make an estimate which tends toward exaggeration.
5. (US, slang, possibly dated) To move quickly; to hightail.

Example Sentences

Booster-equipped 628 highballs west at Glen Lake, Minn., back in 1947.

If we highball the price, it comes out to $240. If we lowball it, it's closer to $200.

It's great for serving heavier drinks in. Highballs and pint glasses are excellent substitutes.

2014, EpicTV.com Austrian all rounder Alex Luger climbs what he describes as a highball boulder problem and what most people would call a solo.

Word Forms

• highballs
• highballing
• highballed

Antonyms for highball

Common opposites include lowball.

Related Words

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