Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 00:18:47 -0500
From: "Barry A. Popik" Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM
Subject: Cocktail; Highball
(More "sin" citations.)
HIGHBALL
I posted a "highball" citation a year ago. It's in the ADS-L archives
(if they exist). The citation described the phrase "having a ball."
This is from the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, May-June
1839, pg. 326:
GIVING A BALL.
A dose of medicine, whether purgative, cordial, diuretic, or any other
kind, when given in a solid form, is termed a _ball_.
A "highball" is a ball in a high glass.
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