highflier

IPA(Pronunciation)

/haɪˈflaɪə(ɹ)/

Noun

idiomatic

A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations. / (idiomatic) An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.

Japanese Meaning

高高度を飛行する航空機、または高高度で飛行する人物 (文字通りの意味) / 野心家、特にリスクを取り派手な生活を送る人 (比喩的な意味)

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The highflier climbed steadily above the clouds, vanishing into the thin blue of the upper atmosphere.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その高高度を飛ぶ航空機は雲の上を着実に上昇し、上層大気の薄い青に消えていった。

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Sense（1）

A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.

Sense（2）

(idiomatic) An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.

under the appellations of Tory, Jacobite, highflier, and other cant words

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Sense（3）

(fishing) A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.

Sense（4）

(finance) A glamorous stock that potentially offers high returns to investors.

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Sense（5）

A swingboat.

[…] and high-flyer boat-swings, full of half-drunken men and half-mad, screaming girls, swing up to perilous heights, and all but whirl over, as if to shoot out the whole of their frantic cargoes!

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highfliers

（ plural ）

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