Highball vs. Tumbler

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.

Tumblernoun

(archaic) One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.

Tumblernoun

A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.

Tumblernoun

A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.

Tumblernoun

A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.

Tumblernoun

A drinking glass that has no stem, foot, or handle — so called because such glasses originally had a pointed or convex base and could not be set down without spilling. This compelled the drinker to finish his measure.

Tumblernoun

A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.

Tumblernoun

A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.

Tumblernoun

(obsolete) A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits.

Tumblernoun

A kind of cart; a tumbril.

Tumblernoun

The pupa of a mosquito.

Tumblernoun

One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms.

Tumblernoun

(obsolete) A porpoise.

Tumblernoun

(cryptocurrency) A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail.

Tumblernoun

One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.

Tumblernoun

A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.

Tumblernoun

A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for the sear point to enter.

Tumblernoun

A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; - so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure.

Tumblernoun

A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.

Tumblernoun

A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits.

Tumblernoun

A kind of cart; a tumbrel.

Tumblernoun

a gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc.

Tumblernoun

a glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem; originally had a round bottom

Tumblernoun

a movable obstruction in a lock that must be adjusted to a given position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown

Tumblernoun

pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground