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highball

[ < highball, n., an early type of railway signal to proceed]

Esp. Lumbering, Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj. or attrib.

operating on a speeded-up schedule; working at top speed.

Quotations

1919

I sometimes think they have hit the nail on the head, more especially so when I see some of our high-ball hook-tenders moving the "Old Pot" to a new landing and leave her setting so that when the boiler is full of water the glass will show a gauge or less.

1925

This outfit would be "high-ball' if the super had his way, but owing to his ignorance of logging he is not able to put it over.

1948

". . . you gotta be good to last. She's highball."