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Highflier
//haɪˈflaɪə(ɹ)// noun, slang
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- 1 A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.
- 2 a person of great ability and ambition wordnet
- 3 An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle. figuratively
"under the appellations of Tory, Jacobite, highflier, and other cant words"
- 4 A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.
- 5 A glamorous stock that potentially offers high returns to investors.
"Virtually all highfliers that I have seen over all these years of trading have crumbled at some point."
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- 6 A swingboat.
"[…] and high-flyer boat-swings, full of half-drunken men and half-mad, screaming girls, swing up to perilous heights, and all but whirl over, as if to shoot out the whole of their frantic cargoes!"
- 7 A writer of begging letters. UK, obsolete, slang
- 8 A type of phaeton carriage.
"The emotions of those who journeyed for the first time on a railway at a speed four times as great as that of the swiftest High-flier that ever devoured the road are forgotten by this generation."
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