highflier
suomi-englanti sanakirjahighflier englannista suomeksi
menestyjä
Substantiivi
highflier englanniksi
A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.
An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.
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A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.
A glamorous stock that potentially offers high returns to investors.
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A swingboat.
(quote-journal) 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!
(quote-journal) Among the activities shown are Letterpress Printing, Copperplate Printing, a Sheep to be roasted, Ballad Singers, Swinging (in boat-shaped swings called the 'high Flyer'), playing at Skittles, (..)
A type of phaeton carriage.