Crossword clues for highflyer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
highflyer \highflyer\ n. Same as highflier.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of highflier English)
WordNet
n. a person of great ability and ambition [syn: highflier]
Wikipedia
Highflyer (1774 – 18 October 1793) was an undefeated Thoroughbred racehorse and a very successful and influential sire of the 18th century.
Highflyer, highflier or high flyer may refer to:
- Highflyer (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
- High flyer (fishing), a vertical floating pole used to locate fishing lines
- Highflyer Wrestler, a professional wrestler who uses the ring and its posts and ropes as aids to show off the speed and agility
- HMS Highflyer, various Royal Navy ships
- Yamhill High Flyers, a first-year International Basketball League team based in McMinnville, Oregon
- High Flyers (TV series), a Bloomberg Television program filmed in Singapore
Usage examples of "highflyer".
Whether they take the Highflyer or a post-chaise, I must catch them before they leave.
In the yard of that hostelry stood the Highflyer ready for its horses, with the baggage already strapped in its place.
He has entered horses for the Thorpe stakes: he will seek to make you enter them, and you told me yourself May and Highflyer were not fit to run this year.
I rather think that highflyer will run into a fog before she gets to the shore.
With an apparatus for taking ranges he had procured the bearing of the highflyer accurately as soon as the last course was given out, perhaps half an hour before.
Regis drove ahead furiously on her course, and the highflyer was doing the same.
I owned that highflyer, I should not employ her present captain to sail her for me.
Regis was rapidly gaining on the Raven, for the latter was near enough now to enable the pursuers to read the name on her stern, and the captain of the highflyer could not help realizing that he had not the slightest chance to escape.
They all involve scenes at fashionable parties and meetings with highflyers in Society.
His wife was very different from the highflyers or pretentious noblewomen he usually escorted, and Madame DuBay had responded accordingly.
Huddled up against it are bins full of ball drops, highflyers, radio beacons—everything that hangs off a longline.
One doesn't advance in that organization except by toughness—and remarkably often the highflyers are men who have crushed their own mentors along the way.
Huddled up against it are bins full of ball drops, highflyers, radio beacons—.