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

to highball

1 7.4

To drink alcohol with a larger amount of fizzy mixer

verb
/ˈhaɪbɔl/

: tomar un cóctel largo

He said, "What do you want to highball for our next drink?"

Examples

Let's highball!

Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
Let's highball some cocktails at the party tonight.
We decided to highball after a long day at work.

Synonyms

to booze

vsto highball

Informal

5 8.4

To drink a lot of alcohol

describes ordering or serving a specific mixed drink made of spirit and more mixer

Compounds

highball glass

1 3.8

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

How Strong

shot

179 2.5

cocktail

288 2.8

sling

Archaic

2 8.1

to highball

1 7.4

shandy

1 6.0

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'; if the drink name is known, the verb meaning is straightforward.

Etymology

Highball used as a verb meaning to serve, order, or drink a highball simply turns the drink name into an action, so to highball is just to have or serve that tall mixed drink.