high liver

noun

Informal.

1. a person who lives extravagantly or luxuriously.

Word History and Origins

Origin of high liver¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

The next day, after receiving lab results showing extremely high liver enzymes, Orley said, her doctor told her to go to an emergency room immediately.

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Tests there showed that she had an enlarged liver and extraordinarily high liver enzymes, signs of inflammation.

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“He was very erratic, a high liver,” Mr. Pollack said of Latouche.

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Diagnostic tests showed he had abnormally high liver enzymes, a symptom of muscular dystrophy.

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Flamboyant and loquacious, wealthy and generous, Mr. Richards was a high roller in the theater world, and a high liver — especially after his marriage, in 1978, to Mary Lea Johnson, a Johnson & Johnson heiress, who gave him a mansion on Gin Lane in Southampton, N.Y., as a wedding present, where outlandish parties were legion during the 1980s.

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