Highball vs. Lowball

Highballnoun

A cocktail made from a spirit plus soda water etc.

Highballnoun

(rail transport) An all clear or full speed ahead signal.

Highballnoun

(climbing) A very high bouldering problem, often with a hard landing.

Highballverb

To make an estimate which tends toward exaggeration.

Highballverb

To move quickly; to hightail.

Highballnoun

An alcoholic beverage having a liquor such as whiskey mixed with water or a carbonated beverage, and usually served with ice in a tall glass.

Highballnoun

A railroad track signal permitting the engineer to proceed at full speed.

Highballnoun

a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass

Highballnoun

a drink consisting of a spirit, especially whisky, and a mixer such as soda, served with ice in a tall glass.

Highballnoun

a railway signal to proceed.

Highballverb

travel fast

Highball

A highball is a mixed alcoholic drink composed of an alcoholic base spirit and a larger proportion of a non-alcoholic mixer, often a carbonated beverage. Examples include the Seven and Seven, Scotch and soda, gin and tonic, Screwdriver, and rum and Coke.

Lowballnoun

The position of the ball on an American railroad ball signal that indicated Stop.

Lowballnoun

(poker) A form of poker in which the lowest-ranking poker hand wins the pot. Usually the ace is the lowest-ranking card, straights and flushes do not count making the best possible hand being A, 2, 3, 4, 5 regardless of suits (in contrast to deuce-to-seven lowball.)

Lowballnoun

A form of cribbage in which the first to score 121 (or 61) is the loser.

Lowballnoun

An unmixed alcohol drink served on ice or water in a short glass.

Lowballverb

(transitive) to give an intentionally low estimate of anything, not necessarily with deceptive intent.

Lowballverb

(transitive) To give (a customer) a deceptively low price or cost estimate that one has no intention of honoring or to prepare a cost estimate deliberately and misleadingly low.

Lowballverb

(transitive) To make an offer well below an item's true value, often to take advantage of the seller's desperation or desire to sell the item quickly.

Lowballnoun

A poker game in which the lowest-ranking hand wins.

Lowballverb

to give a deceptively low estimate of the price of (merchandise or services); - a sales tactic to induce a person to buy.

Lowballverb

make a deliberately low estimate;