high-flyer

noun

1. a person who is extreme in aims, ambition, etc
2. a person of great ability, esp in a career

Example Sentences

I aint no high-flyer myse'f. I fear'd ter shake han's wid you so fur off, Brer Rabbit.'

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"You must have been a real 'gun,' a regular high-flyer, in your good days," she whispered.

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Here we have our author in evening dress, passing as a man of society at a banquet of the rich, shadowing a "high-flyer" crook.

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He is a high flyer, sailing about over our heads in the afternoon or evening.

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She certainly was not one of the high-flyer yachts which had been bought up for service in the Confederate navy.

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