Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sky-high \Sky"-high`\, adv. & a. Very high. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
a. 1 Extremely tall 2 excessive, exorbitant 3 a very high level
WordNet
adv. (with verb `to blow') destroyed completely; blown apart or to pieces; "they blew the bridge sky-high"; "the committee blew the thesis sky-high"
in a lavish or enthusiastic manner; "he extolled her virtues sky-high" [syn: enthusiastically]
to a very high level; "prices have gone sky-high"; "garbage was piled sky-high"; "the men were flung sky-high by the explosion"
Usage examples of "sky-high".
As Lippy ascended the dim spiral stairs that led to the top floor of the Sky-high Club, he noticed that blackness seemed to move ahead of him.
Her internship at Waynscot International, a fledgling marketing firm, turned into a fulltime position just before the company found a niche and market shares soared sky-high.
Even Rome now has its seven hills surrounded by sky-high condominiums and high-rise apartment buildings for the antlike existence of the proles, the slums of the welfare state.
The paperwork is piled sky-high on my desk, and of course I must prepare for the arrival of the auditors from the state Department of Education.
And it was some mind-numbingly, unbelievably, sky-high fanfuckingtastic sex.
An' I betcha it was the same thing I heard just before that danged barge went sky-high!
All the rest of his vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures--an Eiffel Tower of artificialities rising sky-high from a very flat and very thin foundation of inconsequential facts.
Once a crisp shaving crackles, but no lumber shed goes up sky-high in flames, contributing an item to the local papers: Langfuhr carpenter shop a total loss.
The streets are crammed with people who have had the most extraordinary experiences -- been shipwrecked, chased out of Caliph's harems, blown sky-high by bombs -- and it hasn't meant a thing to them, because they couldn't distill it.
Today's the final day of deer season, so my absentee rate's sky-high, but the team's already on the way and the coroner will be here as soon as he gets the message at his cabin over in Comfrey County.
The turbocycle was in a flat skid, heading for the abutment on the western bank, the spiked wheels spewing chipped ice sky-high.
His neuropeptides are sky-high, like his brain is overloaded, or multitasking: serotonin, GABA, VBC, psilosynine.
In every class there were crack players who could hit flies sky-high and whipping boys who were encircled with hard leather balls and made into mincemeat.
In this respect, he had wisted no farther afield than a glimpse, say, of Victor Hugo's sky-high balcony in St.