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  • 81high — Crazy or weird, something that you were not expecting. He actually thought I liked him. He s high. OR That s so high. I can t believe he went to his ex girlfriend s house and didn t tell you. OR He s acting so high, you can tell he s lying …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 82high — Crazy or weird, something that you were not expecting. He actually thought I liked him. He s high. OR That s so high. I can t believe he went to his ex girlfriend s house and didn t tell you. OR He s acting so high, you can tell he s lying …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 83high — adj intoxicated by alcohol or drugs, euphoric. The expression high as a kite preceded the shorter usage which became widespread in the late 1960s. high on life I feel like getting high …

    Contemporary slang

  • 84-high — suffix (in adjectives) of a particular height: The wall was about chest high. (=as high as your chest) | a 7000 metre high mountain …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 85high — [OE] High is an ancient word. It goes right back to Indo European *koukos, which is related to a number of terms denoting roughly ‘rounded protuberance’: Sanskrit kucas ‘breast’, for instance, Russian húcha ‘heap’, and Lithuanian kaukas ‘swelling …

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  • 86high on — {adj. phr.} 1. Intoxicated on some drug or alcoholic drink. * /Rob was severely scolded by the dean for always being high on marijuana./ 2. Enthusiastic about something. * /Jeff is high on Beethoven and Brahms./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 87high on — {adj. phr.} 1. Intoxicated on some drug or alcoholic drink. * /Rob was severely scolded by the dean for always being high on marijuana./ 2. Enthusiastic about something. * /Jeff is high on Beethoven and Brahms./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 88high — a) im Rausch, unter Drogen; (Jargon): auf dem Trip, drauf, stoned, zugedröhnt. b) außer sich, entzückt, euphorisch, glücklich, glückselig, verzückt; (geh.): berauscht, hochgestimmt, trunken; (bildungsspr.): enthusiasmiert; (ugs.): angetörnt,… …

    Das Wörterbuch der Synonyme

  • 89HIGH — (Roget s Thesaurus II) Index high noun air (2), climax, elevation, height, hill, maximum adjective airy, climactic, elevated (2), high (2) …

    English dictionary for students

  • 90high\ on — adj. phr. 1. Intoxicated on some drug or alcoholic drink. Rob was severely scolded by the dean for always being high on marijuana. 2. Enthusiastic about something. Jeff is high on Beethoven and Brahms …

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