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Definition: Highball |
HighballNoun1. Alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Personal Care & Hotels | A drink of spirituous liquor mixed with water or more often a carbonated beverage (as seltzer or ginger ale) and served in a tall glass usu. with ice. . Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer; (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash; chain lightning, champagne, gin, ginsling; highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | Scotch Highball (1930) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Highball. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Emporia, Kansas. Brakeman H.L. Duffield, giving the "highball" as the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe train between Emporia and Wellington pulls out of the yard. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dahinda (vicinity), Illinois. The flagman gives the highball sign as the train is ready to start again on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Chillicothe, Illinois and Fort Madison, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Thoreau, New Mexico. Indian woman crossing the tracks as the conductor gives the highball along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Verona, Illinois. The brakeman gives the highball sign after the train on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Chicago and Chillicothe, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Needles, California. A brakeman giving the highball as the train is about to leave the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad yard. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Highball" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Highball" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "highball": highball glass. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
highball | 35 |
highball glass | 16 |
highball glasses | 9 |
drink highball | 3 |
highball recipe | 3 |
highball production | 2 |
cooler glasses highball super | 2 |
graphic highball | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "highball"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | uiski i gazuar me akull, sinjal për vazhdim. (various references) | |
Arabic | قاد بالسرعة القصوى, خمرة (plonk, sherry, wet). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уиски със сода, бърз влак (express), пътувам с пълна скорост. (various references) | |
Czech | whisky se sodou. (various references) | |
Farsi | یک لیوان بزرگ ویسکی مخلوطبانوشابه , قطارسریع السیر. (various references) | |
Finnish | grogi (whisky and soda). (various references) | |
French | high-ball, whisky soda, boisson alcoolique avec de l'eau et de la glace. (various references) | |
Greek | ουίσκι διαλελυμένο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | whisky jeges szódával. (various references) | |
Indonesian | wiski soda. (various references) | |
Italian | liquore con soda. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ゲリラ兵 (calking, caulking, caution, coach, coach's box, coaster, coat, coating, coda, coding, coding system, cogeneration, cogeneration system, Coke, Coke highball, coordinate, coordination, coordinator, corduroy, corkscrew, corselet, cortisone, course, course of study, course record, courseware, gel, gene, Gentzen, germane, germanium, guerrilla, lane marks, money, money pinch, ski slope, tennis court). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | コークハイ (Coke highball). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ighballhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | usque com soda. (various references) | |
Russian | скорый поезд (express, fast train, quick train), коктейль (cocktail). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | čaša viskija sa sodom. (various references) | |
Spanish | whisky soda, jáibol. (various references) | |
Swedish | grogg (grog, whisky and soda). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хайбол. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "highball": highballed, highballing, highballs. (additional references) | |
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"Highball" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hyball. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-h-h-i-l-l" | |
-3 letters: glial, laigh. | |
-4 letters: bail, ball, bill, blah, gall, gill, glia, glib, hail, hall, high, hila, hill. | |
-5 letters: ail, alb, all, bag, bah, bal, big, gab, gal, ghi, gib, hag, hah, ill, lab, lag, lib. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-h-h-i-l-l" | |
+1 letter: highballs. | |
+2 letters: highballed. | |
+3 letters: highballing. | |
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