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highballer

noun

Etymology

From highball + -er.

  1. derived from *bʰel-✻
  2. derived from *bʰélō✻
  3. inherited from *balluz✻
  4. derived from bǫllr
  5. inherited from *beall✻
  6. inherited from bal
  7. compounded as highball — “high + ball”
  8. suffixed as highballer — “highball + er”

Definitions

  1. A worker or crew in logging operating at a high rate of speed, typically in a smooth and…

    A worker or crew in logging operating at a high rate of speed, typically in a smooth and efficient manner.

    • He was a highballer. This scar under my eye here is where he handed me the dump wrench one time when I wasn't watching. He never bothered to look.
    • The final hour of the day to a highballer is what the final few metres of track are to an Olympic sprinter. (Fact: a highballer will expend significantly more calories in a single day than a runner will during a full marathon, […]

  2. Synonym of highball glass, a tall glass tumbler used for serving highballs.

    • Men who played the asshole card usually enjoyed consistent success with uneducated women. So why was Emma pouring the Masterpiece bourbon into a highballer instead of splashing it in this guy's face?

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