highflier

Definitions

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
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.
5. A swingboat.
6. A writer of begging letters.
   UK, obsolete, slang
7. A type of phaeton carriage.

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Examples

“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, […]”

“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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