highball
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Synonyms & Antonyms for highball
Synonyms: Verb
barrel, belt, blast, blaze, blow, bolt, bomb [slang], bowl, breeze, bundle, bustle, buzz, cannonball, careen, career, chase, course, crack (on), dash, drive, fly, hare, hasten, hie, hotfoot (it), hump, hurl, hurry, hurtle, hustle, jet, jump, motor, nip, pelt, race, ram, rip, rocket, run, rush, rustle, scoot, scurry, scuttle, shoot, speed, step, tear, travel, trot, whirl, whisk, zip, zoom
Antonyms: Verb
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Examples of highball in a Sentence
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trying to make up for lost time, the train just highballed through the station without stoppingRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
According to Kluger, the intertwining of highballs and high altitudes was inescapable—a natural evolution of the downtime imbibing of previous military generations. — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, "Space and booze, an anecdotal history," 6 July 2019 The Suntory Toki highball machine spits out a mean cocktail. — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, "The Mission’s Prairie switches gears, but is it better?," 3 July 2019 By 1960, Suntory had introduced its first highball in a can, now a staple of social drinking. — Hannah Lott-schwartz, Fortune, "Inside Japan’s Oldest Whisky Distillery," 16 June 2019 Aside from that, most people down fruity highballs and mojitos—in between shots, of course. — Naren Young, Condé Nast Traveler, "19 Best Bars in Barcelona," 3 Mar. 2018 Part refrigerator and part tap, the machine pours a perfect whisky-soda highball every time, low in alcohol content but highly refreshing. — Hannah Lott-schwartz, Fortune, "Inside Japan’s Oldest Whisky Distillery," 16 June 2019 Drinks are clever and a little indulgent, like desserts in a highball. — Condé Nast Traveler, "21 Best Bars in Sydney," 27 Feb. 2018 Bar Goto Come here—a minimalist shelter from the storm of Lower East Side partiers—for okonomiyaki, sleek Japanese design, and excellent highballs. — Alex Van Buren, Condé Nast Traveler, "21 Best Bars in New York City," 1 Mar. 2018 Pour into a highball full of ice cubes. Garnish with a grapefruit twist over the top of the drink. — Talia Abbas, SELF, "How to Throw a Laid-Back Holiday Party at Home, from the Team at A Summer Day Cafe," 6 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'highball.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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