Definition of Highfliers

1. Noun. (plural of highflier) ¹

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Definition of Highfliers

1. highflier [n] - See also: highflier

Lexicographical Neighbors of Highfliers

highers
highest
highest-risk
highest common factor
highest concha
highest intercostal artery
highest intercostal vein
highest nuchal line
highest thoracic artery
highest turbinated bone
highfalooting
highfalutin
highfaluting
highfather
highflier
highfliers (current term)
highflyer
highflyers
highflying
highflying(a)
highhanded
highhandedly
highhandedness
highing
highish
highjack
highjacked
highjacker
highjackers
highjacking

Literary usage of Highfliers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Disenssions of the Right and the by Thomas Embley Osmun (1909)
"... but the sooner these rhetorical highfliers stop inaugurating and content themselves with simply beginning the things they are called upon to do in the ..."

2. Travels in America by Asa] [Greene (1833)
"The highfliers then were neither more nor less than disappointed Coots, as the Coots had be«n disappointed Feds. Having stooped to the Bucktails, ..."

3. Richard Kennoway and His Friends by Katherine Steuart (1908)
"The highfliers in this instance were the mere tools of cleverer men than themselves—it was declared a hundred times in ..."

4. Church and State in England to the Death of Queen Anne by Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1917)
"Some too who were not highfliers were more or Isss in sympathy with them. In 1679 a great controversy was started by the Letter to a Convocation Man, ..."

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