HIGH LIFE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high life mean? 

• HIGH LIFE (noun)
  The noun HIGH LIFE has 1 sense:

1. excessive spending

  Familiarity information: HIGH LIFE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH LIFE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excessive spending

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

extravagance; high life; highlife; lavishness; prodigality

Hypernyms ("high life" is a kind of...):

dissipation; waste; wastefulness (useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly)

 Context examples 

We are moving in high life, Watson, crackling paper, ‘E.B.’ monogram, coat-of-arms, picturesque address.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

'Strange story of high life'—you felt fairly high on that pedestal, did you not?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)