highflier

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.
  2. 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
  3. A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.
  4. 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.
  5. 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!
  6. A writer of begging letters. UK,obsolete,slang
  7. 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.

词形变化

highfliers plural high flier alternative high-flier alternative high flyer alternative high-flyer alternative highflyer alternative

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high-flying
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