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highball

English

Etymology

high +? ball, of the same railroad origins as lowball.

Pronunciation

Noun

highball (plural highballs)

  1. A cocktail made from a spirit plus soda water etc.
  2. (rail transport) An all clear or full speed ahead signal.
  3. (climbing) A very high bouldering problem, often with a hard landing.
    • 2014, EpicTV.com
      Austrian all rounder Alex Luger climbs what he describes as a highball boulder problem and what most people would call a solo.

Derived terms

  • highballer
  • highball glass

Descendants

  • Japanese: ?????, ??

Translations

Verb

highball (third-person singular simple present highballs, present participle highballing, simple past and past participle highballed)

  1. To make an estimate which tends toward exaggeration.
    Antonym: lowball
  2. (US, slang, possibly dated) To move quickly; to hightail.
    • 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co. (photo caption):

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colin

English

Etymology

French colin, properly a diminutive of Colas, contracted from Nicolas (Nicholas).

Noun

colin (plural colins)

  1. The American quail or bobwhite, or related species.
    • 1859, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Illustrated natural history of the animal kingdom (volume 2, page 244)
      To this belongs the Colin or Quail of New England and Partridge of the South []
    • 1923, Thomas Alfred Coward, Bird haunts and nature memories (page 206)
      Many efforts have been made to improve and increase the variety of our game stock, but whereas the Barbary partridge, the willow grouse, the colin, bob-white, button quail, and even tinamou have been tried and failed []

Anagrams

  • LOINC, Licon, Nicol, clino-, locin

Catalan

Verb

colin

  1. third-person plural present subjunctive form of colar
  2. third-person plural imperative form of colar

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?.l??/

Noun

colin m (plural colins)

  1. coalfish

Synonyms

  • lieu noir

Further reading

  • “colin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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