英语词汇highball的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

highball. Long drinks were first called highballs in the 1890s, and were so named because they came in tall glasses and all glasses were called “balls” in bartender’s slang. There is some reason to believe that the common, much older, railroad term to highball helped keep the drink highball in the public mind. To highball means to travel at top speed. In the early days of railroading a large metal ball hanging from two crossarms at the approach to railroad stations signaled locomotive engineers as to how they should proceed. A lowered ball meant come to a full stop and a ball raised to the top of the mast, a high ball, meant to proceed full speed ahead.

词汇	highball
词源	highball. Long drinks were first called highballs in the 1890s, and were so named because they came in tall glasses and all glasses were called “balls” in bartender’s slang. There is some reason to believe that the common, much older, railroad term to highball helped keep the drink highball in the public mind. To highball means to travel at top speed. In the early days of railroading a large metal ball hanging from two crossarms at the approach to railroad stations signaled locomotive engineers as to how they should proceed. A lowered ball meant come to a full stop and a ball raised to the top of the mast, a high ball, meant to proceed full speed ahead.
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