noun
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A cocktail made from a spirit plus soda water etc.
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An all clear or full speed ahead signal.
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A very high bouldering problem, often with a hard landing.
verb
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To make an estimate which tends toward exaggeration.
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If we highball the price, it comes out to $240. If we lowball it, it's closer to $200.
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(possibly obsolete) To move quickly; to hightail.
Examples of highball in a Sentence
Cracker 5cl cranberry juice 5cl pineapple juice 5cl passion-fruit juice 5cl grapefruit juice lemonade Fill a highball with ice.
Jamaican Mule 5cl dark Jamaican rum 2cl fresh lime juice ginger beer Pour the rum and lime juice into a highball filled with ice.
We drank ginger ale on ice from his parents ' old-fashioned and highball glasses.
Moscow Mule 5cl vodka 1cl fresh lime juice ginger beer Pour the vodka and the lime juice into a highball filled with ice.
Spurred on by the vultures he whipped up the jutting highball prow of J Mascis V7.
Americano 3cl Campari 3cl sweet vermouth soda water Pour the sweet vermouth soda water Pour the sweet vermouth, then the Campari into a highball filled with ice.
Americano 3cl Campari 3cl sweet vermouth soda water Pour the sweet vermouth, then the Campari into a highball filled with ice.
Put some ice into a cocktail or highball glass and add one ounce of vodka.
Served in a highball glass with a lemon wedge garnish, there isn't any iced tea in a Long Island Iced Tea.
These days, they are typically served in an old-fashioned or highball glass and sipped with a straw.
In a highball glass, add ice and two shots of tequila.
Sets are available for purchase from specialty barware stores, but unless you plan to become a regular Julep sipper, it's perfectly acceptable to serve them in an old-fashioned or a highball glass.
Made of wood or metal, a muddler is ball-shaped on the end with a handle long enough to reach to the bottom of a highball glass.
Pour the mixture through a strainer into a chilled highball glass and garnish with the cherry and orange skewered on a toothpick.
Ideally you would prepare this drink in a chilled silver or pewter cup, but a six ounce highball glass works just as well.
In fact, alcoholic mixed drinks come in all shapes and sizes, from highball to lowball beverages.
A highball is a mixed drink made with any type of spirit.
It is normally served with ice and a large volume of a nonalcoholic mixer in a tall glass, such as a highball or Collins glass.
In an ice-filled highball glass, pour rum and top it off with lime juice and cola.
Shake vigorously and strain into a highball glass filled with ice.
Pour the drink into an iced highball glass and top it off with cola.
Pour tequila in a chilled highball glass filled with ice.
Pour spirits into a chilled highball glass filled with ice.
Pour the spirits into a chilled highball glass filled with ice.