Highflier

Quick meaning: Highflier is a noun meaning A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.

Meaning

A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.
2. (fishing) A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.
3. (finance) A glamorous stock that potentially offers high returns to investors.
4. A swingboat.
5. (UK, slang, obsolete) A writer of begging letters.
6. A type of phaeton carriage.

Example Sentences

under the appellations of Tory, Jacobite, highflier, and other cant words

Virtually all highfliers that I have seen over all these years of trading have crumbled at some point.

The emotions of those who journeyed for the first time on a railway at a speed four times as great as that of the swiftest High-flier that ever devoured the road are forgotten by this generation.

[…] and high-flyer boat-swings, full of half-drunken men and half-mad, screaming girls, swing up to perilous heights, and all but whirl over, as if to shoot out the whole of their frantic cargoes!

Word Forms

• highfliers
• high flier
• high-flier
• high flyer
• high-flyer
• highflyer

Synonyms for highflier

Depending on context, synonyms include highflyer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include highflyer, high-flier, high flyer, highboy, tower, high.

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