high roller
or highroller
a person who gambles for large stakes, as in a casino.
a person who spends money freely for entertainment and extravagant living.
a corporation or governmental agency that invests or spends freely or recklessly.
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How to use high roller in a sentence
To outsiders, the NFT art world can look like a joke, or a bunch of high rollers playing a computer game.
Hippies and high rollers fought over who ruled Main Street, and ski gangs took over the mountains, factionalizing the locals and sealing the town’s image as a no-rule revelry zone.
Simmons, an instinctive high roller (his chief assistant was even named "Mogel"), did not require much convincing.
Doug Kenney: The Odd Comic Genius Behind ‘Animal House’ and National Lampoon | Robert Sam Anson | March 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAt a high-roller Democratic fundraiser on Park Avenue last month, a California lawyer dismissed the Whitman challenge.
I laid off, and Miles Diston took the high-roller out next trip.
Stories of the Railroad | John A. Hill
He had been a high roller in his day, I guess, but had of late been on his uppers.
Step Lively! | George NibloHe 's a high roller, right in with the judge and his crew, and there is n't a more corrupt politician in this town.
The Mayor of Warwick | Herbert M. HopkinsHe had been a "high roller" until he came under the Rev. Mr. Borrowscale's tutelage.
The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks | Charles Felton PidginFatty Welch was "working" some swell guys who thought he was a real high-roller.
McAllister and His Double | Arthur Train
British Dictionary definitions for high roller
slang, mainly US and Canadian a person who spends money extravagantly or gambles recklessly
Derived forms of high roller
- high rolling, noun, adjective
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