high liver

American  

noun

Informal.

1. a person who lives extravagantly or luxuriously.

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Etymology

Origin of high liver

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Washington Post

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

From New York Times

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

From The Guardian

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.

From New York Times