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How to pronounce highball in English?

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Type Words
Type of mixed drink
Has types collins, gin and tonic, julep, mint julep, scotch and soda, sling, tom collins, zombi, cobbler, zombie

Examples of highball

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Shake vigorously and strain into a highball glass half filled with crushed ice.
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He bends the truth as effortlessly as the flexible straw in his highball glass.
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He was an expert at filling a highball glass to the top, without spilling a drop.
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Double-strain into a highball or Collins glass and garnish with the mint sprig.
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When we asked for darts, they came haphazardly unassembled in a highball glass.
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Add hot sauce into highball glass, then pour in vodka and mix with with ice cubes.
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Pour vodka, peach schnapps, and both juices into a highball glass filled with ice.
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Pour an ounce of pomegranate or cranberry juice in each of 4 highball glasses.
From the thenewstribune.com
Strain into a highball glass filled with ice and top with the splash of club soda.
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  • A mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass
  • Highball is the name for a family of mixed drinks that are composed of an alcoholic base spirit and a larger proportion of a non-alcoholic mixer. Originally, the most common highball was made with Scotch whisky and carbonated water, which is today called a "Scotch and Soda".
  • Highball is a 1997 film directed by Noah Baumbach, co-written by Baumbach, Carlos Jacott, and Christopher Reed. The film is credited as having been directed by "Ernie Fusco" and written by "Jesse Carter".
  • A cocktail made from spirit plus soda water etc; An all clear or full speed ahead signal; To make an estimate which tends toward exaggeration; To move quickly; to hightail
  • (Highballs) Any liquor served with ice, soda, plain water, ginger ale or other carbonated liquids.
  • (Highballs) are made with almost any distilled spirit, ice, and any of a number of carbonated beverages.
  • Any spirit served with ice and soda water in a medium to tall glass (often a highball glass).
  • To work at a high rate of speed, usually smoothly and efficiently. A fast, skilled logging show is often said to be a "highball show" (12).
  • A spirit, liqueur or wine served in a long tumbler with ice and topped up with soda or ginger ale. The glass also takes its name from the drink. It is said to have originated in St. ...