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- noun Plural form of
highball .
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Examples
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A drunkard who indulges in "highballs" and other beverages of fancy price and name, is euphemistically styled a "tippler;" his brother, a poor devil who swallows vile concoctions or red "pizen" is called a plain, ordinary "soak."
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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"highballs," cocktails in tall glasses with lots of soda and a splash of alcohol.
World of SL 2009
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Let's Bring Back's readers have traveled to a world in which Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio are still drinking highballs at the Stork Club, and the Beaux Arts Penn Station still gleams on 34th Street.
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: Josephine Baker (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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Bree Williamson, who bartended early in her career, said the job was easy: "It's like pouring highballs and opening beers."
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Many wound up as dray horses of the financial and legal establishments, lapping up highballs at the Yale Club across from Grand Central Station before taking the 7:07 home to Darien.
Jim Sleeper: Why Yale Fumbled Its Quarterback's Rhodes Scholarship Pass Jim Sleeper 2012
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Let's Bring Back's readers have traveled to a world in which Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio are still drinking highballs at the Stork Club, and the Beaux Arts Penn Station still gleams on 34th Street.
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: Josephine Baker (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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Once in Florida, Ike seemed to relax; that evening, after two highballs, dinner, and a movie, Howard Snyder found no more evidence of irregularities.
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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She wears a helmet of '60s-housewife hair, likes downing highballs and has some of the driest, funniest lines.
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He drank two Scotches before dinner on the train and three highballs after dinner, arriving at Union Station at 12:29 A.M., November 2.22
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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Let's Bring Back's readers have traveled to a world in which Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio are still drinking highballs at the Stork Club, and the Beaux Arts Penn Station still gleams on 34th Street.
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: Josephine Baker (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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