A highball glass is a glass tumbler, holding between 8 and 12
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highball glass — noun a tall glass for serving highballs • Hypernyms: ↑glass, ↑drinking glass … Useful english dictionary
Highball — A highball is the name for a family of mixed drinks that are composed of an alcoholic base spirit and a larger proportion of a non alcoholic mixer. Originally, the most common highball was made with rye whiskey and ginger ale.… … Wikipedia
Highball (disambiguation) — A highball is a type of alcoholic drink.Highball may also refer to: * Highball glass, a drinking vessel * A type of bouncing bomb * A type of bouldering situation * A film by Noah Baumbach … Wikipedia
highball — ☆ highball [hī′bôl΄ ] n. [ HIGHBALL sense 1 < ? HIGH + ball, bartender s slang for “whiskey glass”: infl. ? by the v.] 1. liquor, usually whiskey or brandy, mixed with water, soda water, ginger ale, etc. and served with ice in a tall glass 2.… … English World dictionary
glass — [n1] object that reflects an image looking glass, mirror, reflector, seeing glass; concepts 260,470 glass [n2] object used for drinking liquids beaker, bottle, chalice, cup, decanter, goblet, highball, jar, jigger, jug, mug, pilsener, pony,… … New thesaurus
highball — high ball (h[imac] b[add]l ), 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. [WordNet sense 1] [WordNet 1.5] 2. (Railroads) A railroad track… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
highball — type of alcoholic drink, 1898, probably from ball drink of whiskey; high because it is served in a tall glass … Etymology dictionary
highball — UK [ˈhaɪˌbɔːl] / US [ˈhaɪˌbɔl] noun [countable] Word forms highball : singular highball plural highballs mainly American an alcoholic drink made by mixing whisky with water or soda, usually served in a tall glass … English dictionary
highball — American to ingest a taboo substance For railroad engineers, a highball was a clear track; for drinkers, an alcoholic mixture in a tall glass; for drug addicts, an amalgam of narcotics: She had been highballing a mixture of cocaine… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
highball — /ˈhaɪbɔl/ (say huybawl) noun whisky or other liquor diluted with water, soda, or ginger ale, and served with ice in a tall glass. {US (1890s) from highball signal a signal to proceed given to a train driver, formerly by hoisting a ball aloft} …
