Higgins

American  

[hig-inz] / ˈhɪg ɪnz /

noun

1. George V., 1939–99, U.S. novelist.

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Higgins British  

/ ˈhɪɡɪnz /

noun

1. Alex, known as Hurricane Higgins . 1949–2010, Northern Irish snooker player: world champion (1972, 1982)

2. Jack, real name Harry Patterson . born 1929, British novelist; his thrillers include The Eagle Has Landed (1975), Confessional (1985), and Midnight Runner (2002)

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Example Sentences

There was just one problem, write Robert O’Connell and Laine Higgins: Johnston, a senior shooting guard for High Point University, is usually forbidden from attempting a shot anywhere near the rim.

From The Wall Street Journal

That was why, when a colleague declared himself near the end of his rope, the boss erupted in a bit of strategic bravado: “For crying out loud, you’re getting out of a Mercedes in the basement of the New York Fed. You’re not getting out of a Higgins boat on Omaha Beach! Get a grip!”

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Mark Higgins, an investment adviser at Irvine, Calif.-based IFA Institutional and author of “Investing in U.S. Financial History,” a book that chronicles markets from 1790 to the present, has a suggestion.

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“How can you say that,” Higgins suggests asking, “when the governments themselves don’t know what’s going to happen next?”

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My dad’s agent sent me out for a role in the TV sitcom “Our Man Higgins.”

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