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Highball   Listen
noun
highball  n.  
1.
An alcoholic beverage having a liquor such as whiskey mixed with water or a carbonated beverage, and usually served with ice in a tall glass.
2.
(Railroads) A railroad track signal permitting the engineer to proceed at full speed.





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"Highball" Quotes from Famous Books



... mineral-water view, a discriminatory sense that was not enjoyed in the highball period—that is to say, I found, observed with the cold and mayhap critical eye of abstinence, that a number of those with whom I was wont to associate needed the softening glow radiated by the liquor in me to make them as good as I had previously thought ...
— The Old Game - A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon • Samuel G. Blythe
... went like a scared lizard up the winding highway through the Pass. At Cajon Camp he slowed, thinking they would need to fill the radiator before attempting to climb the steep grade to the summit. But the young man shook his head and gave the "highball." (Which, if you don't already know it, is the ...
— The Trail of the White Mule • B. M. Bower


Words linked to "Highball" :   gin and tonic, cobbler, sling, Tom Collins, zombi, highball glass, Scotch and soda, zombie, collins, julep, mixed drink


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