Highball vs Colin - What's the difference?
highball | colin |
A cocktail made from spirit plus soda water etc.
(rail transport) An all clear'' or ''full speed ahead signal.
To make an estimate which tends toward exaggeration.
(slang, rare, or, erroneous) To move quickly; to hightail.
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* 1992 Howard B. Means, Colin Powell , Donald J. Fine (1992), ISBN 1556113358, page 49:
As nouns the difference between highball and colin
is that highball is a cocktail made from spirit plus soda water etc while colin is the american quail or bobwhite, or related species.As a verb highball
is to make an estimate which tends toward exaggeration.highball
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
*highball glassDescendants
* Japanese:Verb
(en verb)- If we highball the price, it comes out to $240. If we lowball it, it's closer to $200.
Antonyms
* (estimate) lowballcolin
English
Alternative forms
* CollinProper noun
(en-proper noun) ( plural Colins )- That iolly shepheard, which there piped, was / Poore Colin' Clout (who knowes not ' Colin Clout?)
- "My parents," Powell wrote, "were British subjects, and they named me Colin' (KAH-lin). Being British, they knew very well how the name was supposed to be pronounced. But when I was a young boy, there was a famous American World War II hero whose name became very popular in the streets of New York City. He was Capt. ' Colin P. Kelly Jr. He was called KOH-lin. My friends in the streets of the South Bronx, who heard Captain Kelly's name pronounced in the radio and by their parents and other adults, began to refer to me by the same pronunciation.
