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  • To someone coming on the sports scene four decades later, as I did, though, that highballing world might as well be as fictional as "Mad Men."

    THE FUTURE OF SPORTS CARTOONING? Drew Litton debuts his 'Monday Night Football' animations on ESPN.com 2010

  • The only way Bush cut his "deficit in half" is by taking spending for the Iraq War and a whole bunch of other expenditures off the books, and highballing the predictions in the spring and then claiming he came in way under when his doomsday numbers didn't come to pass at the end of the year.

    New York Times Takes On McCain's Economic Hokum 2009

  • The car wobbled in the sound booms of highballing trucks, drivers perched in tall cabs with food, drink, dope and pornography, and the rigs seemed to draw the little car down the pike in their sheering wind.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • The car wobbled in the sound booms of highballing trucks, drivers perched in tall cabs with food, drink, dope and pornography, and the rigs seemed to draw the little car down the pike in their sheering wind.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • The car wobbled in the sound booms of highballing trucks, drivers perched in tall cabs with food, drink, dope and pornography, and the rigs seemed to draw the little car down the pike in their sheering wind.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • With the blood chemistry highballing his senses, and her sequence of moves affirming his moves, his contact with her verged on the sensual.

    The Wall Jeff Long 2005

  • For a generation of Americans there was something especially appealing about the picture of this line across Panama, of a steam locomotive highballing through the jungle, pulling a train of bright passenger cars, a steam whistle scattering monkeys to the treetops–“ocean to ocean” in something over three hours.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • For a generation of Americans there was something especially appealing about the picture of this line across Panama, of a steam locomotive highballing through the jungle, pulling a train of bright passenger cars, a steam whistle scattering monkeys to the treetops–“ocean to ocean” in something over three hours.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • 'Now they all highballing - heroin and speed mixed.

    two women Cole, Martina 1999

  • I made it to Ensenada, highballing at double the speed limit.

    White Jazz Ellroy, James, 1948- 1992

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