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highball
CIDE DICTIONARY
highball, n.
- 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. [WordNet 1.5]
- A railroad track signal permitting the engineer to proceed at full speed. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
highball, n. US 1 a drink of spirits and soda etc., served with ice in a tall glass.
2 a railway signal to proceed.
2 a railway signal to proceed.
THESAURUS
highball
Mickey, Mickey Finn, aperitif, ball the jack, barrel, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, brush, chaser, clip, cocktail, cut along, doch-an-dorrach, drink, eye-opener, fleet, flit, fly, fly low, foot, go fast, hotfoot, hustle, knockout drops, make knots, mixed drink, nightcap, nip, outstrip the wind, parting cup, pour it on, pousse-cafe, punch, rip, run, rush, scorch, sizzle, skim, speed, stirrup cup, storm along, sundowner, sweep, tear, tear along, thunder along, wee doch-an-dorrach, whisk, whiz, zing, zip, zoomROGET THESAURUS
highball
Drunkenness
N drunkenness, intemperance, drinking, inebriety, inebriation, ebriety, ebriosity, insobriety, intoxication, temulency, bibacity, wine bibbing, comtation, potation, deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations, bender, oinomania, dipsomania, delirium tremens, alcohol, alcoholism, mania a potu, drink, alcoholic drinks, blue ruin, grog, port wine, punch, punch bowl, cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl, drop, drop too much, dram, beer, aguardiente, apple brandy, applejack, brandy, brandy smash, chain lightning, champagne, cocktail, gin, ginsling, highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres, drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, wine-bibber, lush, hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker, soaker, sponge, tun, love pot, toss pot, thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian, Bacchal, Bacchante, devotee to Bacchus, bum, guzzler, tavern haunter, drunk, tipsy, intoxicated, inebrious, inebriate, inebriated, in one's cups, in a state of intoxication, temulent, temulentive, bombed, smashed, fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated, flustered, disguised, groggy, beery, top-heavy, potvaliant, glorious, potulent, squiffy, overcome, overtaken, whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin, crapulous, dead drunk, woozy, buzzed, flush, flushed, inter pocula, in liquor, the worse for liquor, having had a drop too much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, under the table, drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow, drunken, bibacious, sottish, given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle, toping, nunc est bibendum, Bacchus ever fair and young, drink down all unkindness, O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to.For further exploring for "highball" in Webster Dictionary Online