🥃 A mixed drink 💸 To overcharge 🥃 To drink highballs 🚄 To go fast

to highball

6.5

To travel very fast, often by vehicle or train

verb
/ˈhaɪbɔl/

Jargon

: ir a toda velocidad

Then Linda saw it—the Number Two as it highballed by.

Examples

The train highballed through the countryside, reaching its destination ahead of time.
It's the locomotive that highballs it from Cincinnati all the way to New Orleans - just about every day.

I Saw the Light (2016)
"Remember that day Curly packed us all into his logging rig and we highballed it for the mountains?"

Fiction book (2000)
As the sports car highballed down the highway, the passengers felt the thrill of speed.
We highballed to the city, eager to make it before nightfall.

Synonyms

to speed

vsto highball

137 1.0

To move or travel quickly, often faster than allowed

is mainly used for fast travel by trains or vehicles, not implying rule breaking

to cannonball along

vsto highball

Informal

7.1

To move very quickly in a straight, forceful way

focuses on fast travel especially by trains or vehicles rather than forceful straight motion

Antonyms

crawl

19 2.7

A very slow movement, often of traffic or of a project

Compounds

highball glass

1 3.8

A tall, straight glass used for serving mixed drinks with ice like a gin and tonic

How Fast

to zoom

54 3.7

to race

91 1.0

to highball

Jargon

6.5

to speed

137 1.0

to creep

155 2.5

Surface Forms

highball infinitive

highballed past

highballed past participle

highballing present participle

highballs third person singular

Morphology

highball = highball (opaque) = high + ball

This is a conversion from the noun 'highball'; the verbal sense follows directly from the noun's meaning.

Etymology

Highball meaning to move very fast comes from old railroad talk, where a signal 'ball' was raised high to show the track was clear and the train could go at top speed, so to highball came to mean 'travel quickly'.