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high roller
noun
- 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.
high roller
noun
- slang.a person who spends money extravagantly or gambles recklessly
Derived Forms
- high rolling, nounadjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of high roller1
Example Sentences
Simmons, an instinctive high roller (his chief assistant was even named "Mogel"), did not require much convincing.
At 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.
He had been a high roller in his day, I guess, but had of late been on his uppers.
He 's a high roller, right in with the judge and his crew, and there is n't a more corrupt politician in this town.
He had been a "high roller" until he came under the Rev. Mr. Borrowscale's tutelage.
Fatty Welch was "working" some swell guys who thought he was a real high-roller.
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