Definition of Highflyers

1. Noun. (plural of highflyer) ¹

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Definition of Highflyers

1. highflyer [n] - See also: highflyer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Highflyers

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
highflyer
highflyers (current term)
highflying
highflying(a)
highhanded
highhandedly
highhandedness
highing
highish
highjack
highjacked
highjacker
highjackers
highjacking
highjacks
highland

Literary usage of Highflyers

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

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"And when on the last occasion an attempt was made by the highflyers to tack it on to a money bill, the epithets of Tackers and Non-tackers, so prevalent for ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1879)
"He dreaded the highflyers, not only for le galling restraint which they placed upon private life, not only Or their bitterness and rancour and hypocrisy, ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1889)
"And when on the last occasion an attempt was made by the highflyers to tack it on to a Money Bill, the epithets of Tackers and Non-tackers, so prevalent for ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1860)
"In another place, he incidently alludes to the same subject, when a fitting opponent was found to the reverend sandbank of the highflyers :—" Dr Patrick ..."

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