highballer

English

Etymology

From highball +‎ -er.

Noun

highballer (plural highballers)

1. Synonym of highball glass, a tall glass tumbler used for serving highballs.
   • 2008, Kylie Adams, Beautiful Liars:

     Men who played the asshole card usually enjoyed consistent success with uneducated women. So why was Emma pouring the Masterpiece bourbon into a highballer instead of splashing it in this guy's face?

2. (slang) A logger who works very hard or very fast.
   • 1954, Queen's Quarterly, volume 61, page 63:

     He was a highballer. This scar under my eye here is where he handed me the dump wrench one time when I wasn't watching. He never bothered to look.

   • 2019, Greg Nolan, Highballer: True Tales from a Treeplanting Life:

     The final hour of the day to a highballer is what the final few metres of track are to an Olympic sprinter. (Fact: a highballer will expend significantly more calories in a single day than a runner will during a full marathon, […]