highballn.

Brit.

/ˈhʌɪbɔːl/, U.S.

/ˈhaɪˌbɔl/,

/ˈhaɪˌbɑl/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adj., ball n.¹, ball n.⁴

Etymology: In senses 1 and 2 < high adj. + ball n.¹ In sense 3 perhaps < high adj. + ball n.⁴, although perhaps also with some echo of sense 1.

1. U.S. Gambling. A game based on poker, in which numbered balls are drawn out of a bottle-shaped receptacle (each player's ‘hand’ consisting of two balls), and bets are taken on who holds those with the highest sum. More fully highball poker. Now historical.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > varieties of

vaunt1598

brag1734

draw poker1847

penny ante1855

freeze-out1856

draw1857

straight poker1864

stud poker1864

mistigris1875

highball1878

whisky-poker1878

stud-horse poker1881

stud horse1882

stud1884

showdown poker1892

show poker1895

red dog1919

showdown1927

strip-poker1929

manilla1930

Hold 'Em1964

Texas Hold 'Em1968

pai gow poker1985

1878 Idaho Avalanche 26 Jan. A new game..was introduced here a few days ago called ‘High Ball Poker’, but it did not take.

1882 C. M. Chase Editor's Run in New Mexico xviii. 134 Mexican monte, keno, faro, high ball, etc., are the prevailing games.

1883 Acts Tennessee c. 23. §1 308 Any person who shall keep a room, hall, or house for the purpose of encouraging or promoting, aiding or assisting the playing of any game of..high ball, roulette, twenty-one and hazard,..shall be deemed guilty of a felony.

1983 A. De León They called them Greasers 33 Mexicans engrossed in playing dice, faro, high-ball poker, draw-poker, and casino at the numerous gambling places.

2001 B. Olds Bucking Tiger 93 At one time or another he flirted with most of them: pedro, pooloo, Kansas Lottery,..highball, horsehead.

2. U.S. More fully highball signal.

a. Railways slang. A signal to proceed given to a train driver, originally by raising a ball attached to a pole. Now chiefly historical.In quot. 1894 used as a signal of congratulations.

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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > types of signal system > specific signal

red light1790

danger1841

danger-signal1848

line clear1869

highball signal1894

starter1895

red board1903

stop signal1923

identification light1931

1894 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Disp. 29 Dec. 3/2 Railroad men along the line signal congratulations by giving ‘high ball’ at all points passed.

1896 Railway Conductor Apr. 272/1 Brother Kerber is still giving high ball signals in the P. R. R. yard.

1913 Pacific Reporter 179 193/1 Walking back northerly across the tracks.., [he] swung his lantern around his head, giving a signal which Bowles called a ‘highball’.

1940 Sat. Evening Post 16 Nov. 18 Picking up the highball as he drifted out of the freight yards, Engineer Joe De Nobel gave her the throttle.

2000 D. A. Holley Don't Shoot from Saddle i. 17 The merchant was still shovelling peanuts into the bag when I suddenly heard the highball signal, which meant the train was ready to go.

b. figurative and in extended use. A signal, an alert. Also: a clear route; a straight course. Now rare.

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society > communication > indication > signalling > [noun] > signal > other specific signals

return1835

go-ahead1849

highball signal1899

pan1927

go1933

alert1970

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > [noun] > straight or direct

rightOE

the (occasionally your, etc.) next wayc1330

forthright1609

highball1920

1899 Locomotive Firemen's Mag. Sept. 258/2 It was a laughable attempt at giving us the ‘high ball’ that they made, and showed that these daughters of Eve are not as well posted in the art of flirtation or coquetry as their white sisters.

1908 W. G. Davenport Butte & Montana beneath X-ray 267 Boobies so devoid of reason that it is necessary to give 'em the highball to get 'em in out of the rain.

1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas I. 354 Mr. Butler and I told them [sc. cowboys]..to strike a high ball to town.

1936 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 82/2 When a man starts out to plan to do something,..what he is actually doing is giving the highball to misfortune.

3. Originally and chiefly U.S. A drink of whisky and soda (or in later use other mixer, esp. ginger ale), served with ice in a tall, straight-sided glass. Later also (frequently with modifying word): any long mixed drink.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > cocktail > [noun] > whisky cocktail

whisky-skin1856

Manhattan1882

whisky sour1889

highball?1894

Rob Roy1895

Alexander?1910

old-fashioned1912

Scotch mist1947

whisky mac1960

?1894 H. A. Du Souchet My Friend from India iii. 71 Jennings, bring me a high ball of whiskey.

1898 N.Y. Jrnl. 16 Sept. 4/2 Evening dress and khaki talked much sport and a little war over ‘high balls’ or chicken livers.

1915 P. G. Wodehouse Something Fresh iii. 59 Beyond Baxter, a cigar in his mouth and a weak high-ball at his side, the Earl of Emsworth took his ease.

1958 Life 18 Aug. 90/3 (advt.) Vodka highball. Use ginger ale—or any other mixer.

1965 Amer. Speech 40 77 In sophisticated drinking circles the term high-ball has become practically archaic... The illuminati ask for ‘whiskey and water’ or ‘Scotch and soda’.

2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 26 Aug. d4/1 A coterie of young, ambitious mixologists are using..ice balls the size of oranges for drinks on the rocks, long ice tubes for highballs.

Compounds

highball glass n. originally U.S. a tall, straight-sided glass tumbler in which a highball or other long mixed drink may be served, spec. one holding 240 to 350 ml. (8 to 12 fluid ounces); cf. old-fashioned glass n. at old-fashioned adj. and n. Compounds.

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1908 Scribner's Mag. June 741 The merchants and politicians and journalists..do their gossiping, not over cocktail and highball glasses, but over those little white cups.

1973 H. Nielsen Severed Key viii. 92 A soiled highball glass on the counter.

2009 Olive Sept. 17/3 Strain over ice into a highball glass and top with ginger beer.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

highballv.

Brit.

/ˈhʌɪbɔːl/, U.S.

/ˈhaɪˌbɔl/,

/ˈhaɪˌbɑl/

Forms: see high adj. and ball n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: highball n.

Etymology: < highball n.

Originally and chiefly U.S.

1. transitive. Railways slang. To give (a train or train driver) a signal to proceed. Also in extended use: to alert. Also and in earliest use intransitive. Cf. highball n. 2.

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society > travel > rail travel > [verb (transitive)] > direct or manage a railway engine > specific operations

work1835

shunt1845

flag1856

slip1866

whistle1869

sidetrack1872

signal1888

switch1891

target1893

highball1905

plunge1923

1905 Locomotive Firemen's Mag. Jan. 139/2 Business is not very good at present, so I am high balling at night.

1905 Railway Conductor Feb. 131/1 Brother W. L. Surran, our clever yardmaster, is kept busy ‘high-balling’ trains into the yard.

1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route v. 53 Often they highball the cops and you get raided.

1954 N. Cassady Let. 14 July (2005) 389 What first led me to believe one could hiball with a red flag was one day long ago when as head brakeman on a drag east I was so hiballed.

2004 K. Lothridge Conductor Tells viii. 90 When Dan had the other eight smokers back on board, he high balled the train.

2. colloquial.

a. intransitive. To move or travel at speed; to depart hastily. Chiefly with adverbial complement. Also transitive with it.

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society > travel > rail travel > [verb (intransitive)] > specific railway operations

work1810

to pull the pin1860

highball1911

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > at speed

smoke1697

highball1911

to hit it1911

barrel1930

1911 Abilene (Texas) Daily Reporter 17 Mar. 2/3 The twentieth century fun makers didn't even stop but high-balled it right on through the city on No. 3.

1912 Railroad Man's Mag. 17 493 She whistled twice and high-balled out, They were off—down the Gila Monster Route.

1946 Sat. Evening Post 11 May 27/3 Everyone else had highballed..out of there.

1962 Amer. Speech 37 131 A logging train that is highballing or making a fast run.

1977 J. Sayles Union Dues xxi. 257 This woman, she come high-ballin acrost the fields towards us, screamin to wake the dead.

2012 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 24 Nov. 8 We started to lose all sense of time as the bus highballed it out to Manly.

b. transitive. To drive (a train or other vehicle) at speed.

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1939 Collier's 23 Sept. 21/3 I dressed as quick and quiet as I could, sneaked out of this house and highballed the jallopy toward town.

1945 This Week Mag. 14 July 19/2 He highballed the big locomotive down the tracks.

1978 J. L. Burke Lost Get-back Boogie iv. 45 I highballed the pickup all the way from the Little Bighorn River to Missoula.

2009 J. Hart Tooth Fairy xx. 245 Enough of the parts were still intact for the boy to imagine that he was the engineer, highballing the 300,000 pound giant down the Main Line.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	highball
释义	highballn. Brit. /ˈhʌɪbɔːl/, U.S. /ˈhaɪˌbɔl/, /ˈhaɪˌbɑl/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adj., ball n.¹, ball n.⁴ Etymology: In senses 1 and 2 < high adj. + ball n.¹ In sense 3 perhaps < high adj. + ball n.⁴, although perhaps also with some echo of sense 1. 1. U.S. Gambling. A game based on poker, in which numbered balls are drawn out of a bottle-shaped receptacle (each player's ‘hand’ consisting of two balls), and bets are taken on who holds those with the highest sum. More fully highball poker. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > varieties of vaunt1598 brag1734 draw poker1847 penny ante1855 freeze-out1856 draw1857 straight poker1864 stud poker1864 mistigris1875 highball1878 whisky-poker1878 stud-horse poker1881 stud horse1882 stud1884 showdown poker1892 show poker1895 red dog1919 showdown1927 strip-poker1929 manilla1930 Hold 'Em1964 Texas Hold 'Em1968 pai gow poker1985 1878 Idaho Avalanche 26 Jan. A new game..was introduced here a few days ago called ‘High Ball Poker’, but it did not take. 1882 C. M. Chase Editor's Run in New Mexico xviii. 134 Mexican monte, keno, faro, high ball, etc., are the prevailing games. 1883 Acts Tennessee c. 23. §1 308 Any person who shall keep a room, hall, or house for the purpose of encouraging or promoting, aiding or assisting the playing of any game of..high ball, roulette, twenty-one and hazard,..shall be deemed guilty of a felony. 1983 A. De León They called them Greasers 33 Mexicans engrossed in playing dice, faro, high-ball poker, draw-poker, and casino at the numerous gambling places. 2001 B. Olds Bucking Tiger 93 At one time or another he flirted with most of them: pedro, pooloo, Kansas Lottery,..highball, horsehead. 2. U.S. More fully highball signal. a. Railways slang. A signal to proceed given to a train driver, originally by raising a ball attached to a pole. Now chiefly historical.In quot. 1894 used as a signal of congratulations. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > types of signal system > specific signal red light1790 danger1841 danger-signal1848 line clear1869 highball signal1894 starter1895 red board1903 stop signal1923 identification light1931 1894 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Disp. 29 Dec. 3/2 Railroad men along the line signal congratulations by giving ‘high ball’ at all points passed. 1896 Railway Conductor Apr. 272/1 Brother Kerber is still giving high ball signals in the P. R. R. yard. 1913 Pacific Reporter 179 193/1 Walking back northerly across the tracks.., [he] swung his lantern around his head, giving a signal which Bowles called a ‘highball’. 1940 Sat. Evening Post 16 Nov. 18 Picking up the highball as he drifted out of the freight yards, Engineer Joe De Nobel gave her the throttle. 2000 D. A. Holley Don't Shoot from Saddle i. 17 The merchant was still shovelling peanuts into the bag when I suddenly heard the highball signal, which meant the train was ready to go. b. figurative and in extended use. A signal, an alert. Also: a clear route; a straight course. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > [noun] > signal > other specific signals return1835 go-ahead1849 highball signal1899 pan1927 go1933 alert1970 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > [noun] > straight or direct rightOE the (occasionally your, etc.) next wayc1330 forthright1609 highball1920 1899 Locomotive Firemen's Mag. Sept. 258/2 It was a laughable attempt at giving us the ‘high ball’ that they made, and showed that these daughters of Eve are not as well posted in the art of flirtation or coquetry as their white sisters. 1908 W. G. Davenport Butte & Montana beneath X-ray 267 Boobies so devoid of reason that it is necessary to give 'em the highball to get 'em in out of the rain. 1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas I. 354 Mr. Butler and I told them [sc. cowboys]..to strike a high ball to town. 1936 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 82/2 When a man starts out to plan to do something,..what he is actually doing is giving the highball to misfortune. 3. Originally and chiefly U.S. A drink of whisky and soda (or in later use other mixer, esp. ginger ale), served with ice in a tall, straight-sided glass. Later also (frequently with modifying word): any long mixed drink. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > cocktail > [noun] > whisky cocktail whisky-skin1856 Manhattan1882 whisky sour1889 highball?1894 Rob Roy1895 Alexander?1910 old-fashioned1912 Scotch mist1947 whisky mac1960 ?1894 H. A. Du Souchet My Friend from India iii. 71 Jennings, bring me a high ball of whiskey. 1898 N.Y. Jrnl. 16 Sept. 4/2 Evening dress and khaki talked much sport and a little war over ‘high balls’ or chicken livers. 1915 P. G. Wodehouse Something Fresh iii. 59 Beyond Baxter, a cigar in his mouth and a weak high-ball at his side, the Earl of Emsworth took his ease. 1958 Life 18 Aug. 90/3 (advt.) Vodka highball. Use ginger ale—or any other mixer. 1965 Amer. Speech 40 77 In sophisticated drinking circles the term high-ball has become practically archaic... The illuminati ask for ‘whiskey and water’ or ‘Scotch and soda’. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 26 Aug. d4/1 A coterie of young, ambitious mixologists are using..ice balls the size of oranges for drinks on the rocks, long ice tubes for highballs. Compounds highball glass n. originally U.S. a tall, straight-sided glass tumbler in which a highball or other long mixed drink may be served, spec. one holding 240 to 350 ml. (8 to 12 fluid ounces); cf. old-fashioned glass n. at old-fashioned adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1908 Scribner's Mag. June 741 The merchants and politicians and journalists..do their gossiping, not over cocktail and highball glasses, but over those little white cups. 1973 H. Nielsen Severed Key viii. 92 A soiled highball glass on the counter. 2009 Olive Sept. 17/3 Strain over ice into a highball glass and top with ginger beer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). highballv. Brit. /ˈhʌɪbɔːl/, U.S. /ˈhaɪˌbɔl/, /ˈhaɪˌbɑl/ Forms: see high adj. and ball n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: highball n. Etymology: < highball n. Originally and chiefly U.S. 1. transitive. Railways slang. To give (a train or train driver) a signal to proceed. Also in extended use: to alert. Also and in earliest use intransitive. Cf. highball n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > [verb (transitive)] > direct or manage a railway engine > specific operations work1835 shunt1845 flag1856 slip1866 whistle1869 sidetrack1872 signal1888 switch1891 target1893 highball1905 plunge1923 1905 Locomotive Firemen's Mag. Jan. 139/2 Business is not very good at present, so I am high balling at night. 1905 Railway Conductor Feb. 131/1 Brother W. L. Surran, our clever yardmaster, is kept busy ‘high-balling’ trains into the yard. 1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route v. 53 Often they highball the cops and you get raided. 1954 N. Cassady Let. 14 July (2005) 389 What first led me to believe one could hiball with a red flag was one day long ago when as head brakeman on a drag east I was so hiballed. 2004 K. Lothridge Conductor Tells viii. 90 When Dan had the other eight smokers back on board, he high balled the train. 2. colloquial. a. intransitive. To move or travel at speed; to depart hastily. Chiefly with adverbial complement. Also transitive with it. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > [verb (intransitive)] > specific railway operations work1810 to pull the pin1860 highball1911 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > at speed smoke1697 highball1911 to hit it1911 barrel1930 1911 Abilene (Texas) Daily Reporter 17 Mar. 2/3 The twentieth century fun makers didn't even stop but high-balled it right on through the city on No. 3. 1912 Railroad Man's Mag. 17 493 She whistled twice and high-balled out, They were off—down the Gila Monster Route. 1946 Sat. Evening Post 11 May 27/3 Everyone else had highballed..out of there. 1962 Amer. Speech 37 131 A logging train that is highballing or making a fast run. 1977 J. Sayles Union Dues xxi. 257 This woman, she come high-ballin acrost the fields towards us, screamin to wake the dead. 2012 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 24 Nov. 8 We started to lose all sense of time as the bus highballed it out to Manly. b. transitive. To drive (a train or other vehicle) at speed. ΚΠ 1939 Collier's 23 Sept. 21/3 I dressed as quick and quiet as I could, sneaked out of this house and highballed the jallopy toward town. 1945 This Week Mag. 14 July 19/2 He highballed the big locomotive down the tracks. 1978 J. L. Burke Lost Get-back Boogie iv. 45 I highballed the pickup all the way from the Little Bighorn River to Missoula. 2009 J. Hart Tooth Fairy xx. 245 Enough of the parts were still intact for the boy to imagine that he was the engineer, highballing the 300,000 pound giant down the Main Line. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1878v.1905
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