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high-flyer

n. (alternative form of highflier English)

Usage examples of "high-flyer".

Flying Angels followed their longeur and vaulting horse out of the building, and the Tyler High-Flyers ran in.

There are four of us sitting there who could do the job with our eyes closed but instead of paying one of us a little deputising they bring in this fucking high-flyer who doesn't know his arse from his elbow.

Graduates from the top combat academies and other Federation high-flyers regarded the A-Levels as the absolute pits hence the perjorative term 'Zed-heads'.

Russel had served in Lisbon, Stockholm and most recently Moscow, and was now at the crucial stage of his career where he had to mark himself out to be a high-flyer (otherwise his career could peter out in a series of unimportant Head Office jobs or postings to sleepy stations in Africa and the Far East until compulsory retirement at 55).