ace-high

[ eys-hahy, -hahy ]

adjective

1. (of a poker hand) having an ace as the highest card.
2. held in high esteem:

   He has an ace-high reputation.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ace-high¹

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

Example Sentences

You've always been ace-high with me, and there never will come the day when you can't eat on my meal-ticket.

From Project Gutenberg

The Hawley doesn't take a fancy to every woman she sees—and, let me tell you, she stands ace-high in this country.

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Used to call him his right bower—I mean his strong suit—I mean his two pair—ace high.

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From the very first dose he was ace-high and everybody else looked like thirty cents to her.

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N he bluffed forty pair of stockings outen a greenhorn on ace high.

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