Higgins

[ hig-inz ]

noun

1. George V., 1939–99, U.S. novelist.

Higgins

/ ˈhɪɡɪnz /

noun

1. HigginsAlex19492010MNorthern IrishSPORT AND GAMES: snooker player Alex, known as Hurricane Higgins . 1949–2010, Northern Irish snooker player: world champion (1972, 1982)
2. HigginsJack1929MBritishWRITING: novelist Jack, real name Harry Patterson . born 1929, British novelist; his thrillers include The Eagle Has Landed (1975), Confessional (1985), and Midnight Runner (2002)

Example Sentences

After they cited Higgins’ work, more people started paying attention to Brown Moses.

From Time

Bellingcat is trying to give people an “alternative way” to engage outside the more traditional sources of information, says Higgins, “because so many people are rejecting that now,” he says.

From Time

Ten years ago, Higgins was working a nondescript job in admin.

From Time

In 2014, Higgins set up Bellingcat, which he called “an intelligence agency for the people” in his new memoir, We Are Bellingcat.

From Time

Higgins, who sold her home in 2010 to raise funds to combat environmental destruction, wrote an influential book, Eradicating Ecocide, that informed the legal debate.

From Time

Coming from Kaszeta, a man with little public profile, and Higgins, an amateur himself, it was quite a claim.

From The Daily Beast

Attempts over the next century, Higgins notes, had mixed results, and jumps were often as deadly as they were successful.

From The Daily Beast

Eliot Higgins is the founder of Bellingcat and the Brown Moses Blog.

From The Daily Beast

Before you scold me: I know how famous Higgins is, and how important she was.

From The Daily Beast

The royal brothers have written to the Terrence Higgins Trust, praising the organisation for supporting people with the virus.

From The Daily Beast

I think you'll find him rather more—I can't quite think of the word, but Mrs. Higgins could tell you what I mean.

From Project Gutenberg

But before the ice was out of the river disquieting rumors began to breathe out of Higgins's Bridge.

From Project Gutenberg

The girls were impressed and their hearts ached for Dan Higgins, his years of hope and work and his profitless mine.

From Project Gutenberg

"Poor old Dan Higgins," said Andy, with a sobering of his good-natured face.

From Project Gutenberg

But perhaps of them all, their best and staunchest friends were old Dan Higgins and his daughter, Meggy.

From Project Gutenberg