highflier
/haɪˈflaɪə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.
noun
A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.
noun
A swingboat.
Example Sentences
- "under the appellations of Tory, Jacobite, highflier, and other cant words"
- "A beautiful woman juggled expensive shopping bags while taking a call; friends gathered clinking glasses in celebration; a young man coyly slurped noodles; a gaggle of suited highfliers shook hands over a boardroom with views across the city. Everything screamed: “We are no longer in recession! We are a beating heart of London’s future!”"
- "Virtually all highfliers that I have seen over all these years of trading have crumbled at some point."
- "I like Canadian stocks and have done quite well investing in them, but you are typically better off buying a stock on the Toronto Stock Exchange, Canada's leading exchange, than some of the highfliers in Vancouver."
- "[…] 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!"
- "A small copper-plate representation of Frost Fair […] Among the activities shown are Letterpress Printing, Copperplate Printing, a Sheep to be roasted, Ballad Singers, Swinging (in boat-shaped swings called the 'high Flyer'), playing at Skittles, […]"