Usually means: Alcoholic drink with more mixer.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. highball: Merriam-Webster
  2. highball: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. highball: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. highball: Collins English Dictionary
  5. highball: Vocabulary.com
  6. Highball, highball: Wordnik
  7. highball: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. highball: Wiktionary
  9. highball: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. highball: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. highball: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. highball: Dictionary.com
  13. highball: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Highball (cocktail), Highball (disambiguation), Highball (film), Highball: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. highball: Rhymezone
  16. highball: FreeDictionary.org
  17. highball: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. highball: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. highball: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. highball: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. highball, highball, highball: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Highball: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. highball: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Happy Hour Spirit & Liqueur Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See highballed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A cocktail made from a spirit plus soda water etc.
noun:  (rail transport, US) An all clear or full speed ahead signal.
noun:  (climbing) A very high bouldering problem, often with a hard landing.
verb:  To make an estimate which tends toward exaggeration.
verb:  (US, slang, possibly dated) To move quickly; to hightail.
noun:  Clipping of highball glass, a tall glass tumbler used for serving highballs. [A tall glass tumbler used for highballs, usually holding 240–350 mL.]

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