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high roller

or highroller

noun

, Informal.
  1. a person who gambles for large stakes, as in a casino.
  2. a person who spends money freely for entertainment and extravagant living.
  3. a corporation or governmental agency that invests or spends freely or recklessly.


high roller

noun

  1. slang.
    a person who spends money extravagantly or gambles recklessly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • high rolling, nounadjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of high roller1

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85
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Example Sentences

To outsiders, the NFT art world can look like a joke, or a bunch of high rollers playing a computer game.

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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.

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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