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highballing

highballing is the present participle and gerund of highball.

Meaning of highball

Verb

highball (third-person singular simple present highballs, present participle highballing, simple past and past participle highballed)

  1. To make an estimate which tends toward exaggeration.
    • If we highball the price, it comes out to $240. If we lowball it, it's closer to $200.
    Antonyms:
    lowball
  2. (US, dated, possibly, slang) To move quickly; to hightail.
    • Booster-equipped 628 highballs west at Glen Lake, Minn., back in 1947.1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co. (photo caption)

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Questions about highballing

What is highballing the present participle and gerund of?
Highballing is the present participle and gerund of highball.

Words near highballing in the dictionary

  1. highball glass
  2. highball glasses
  3. highballed
  4. highballer
  5. highballers
  6. highballing
  7. highballs
  8. Highbaugh
  9. highbelia
  10. highbie
  11. highbies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: highballing (page history and authors); highball (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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