Definition of be high-tone

high-tone    

adjective

• refined; classy.

                                                               
  
  Citation from A Simple Favor (2018 film) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  • See more words with the same meaning: expensive, fancy, high quality.

  Last edited on Sep 15 2018. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 15 2018.

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Other terms relating to 'expensive, fancy, high quality':
ritzy	Definitions include: fancy.
flash	Definitions include: meaning fancy, stunning or anything that looks extraordinarily good.
spendy	Definitions include: expensive.
fancy-pants	Definitions include: upscale.
bling bling	Definitions include: any expensive, flashy, or shiny jewelry, usually gold or silver, esp. bracelets, chains, earrings.
five-dollar word	Definitions include: a fancy word.
dolled up	Definitions include: fancily dressed.
shmancy	Definitions include: fancy.
tony	Definitions include: upscale, elegant, luxurious.
bourgee	Definitions include: "bourgeois".
mint	Definitions include: attractive, usually applying to a male.
pricey	Definitions include: expensive.
swish	Definitions include: an effeminate guy.
lush	Definitions include: a person who drinks frequently.
fancy schmancy	Definitions include: overly fancy.
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Other terms relating to 'high':
as high as a kite	Definitions include: extremely intoxicated from marijuana.
come hell or high water	Definitions include: no matter what.
get high	Definitions include: "Galesville Ettrick Trempealeau High School" in Galesville, WI.
HG	Definitions include: acronym for "high gravity".
high	Definitions include: intoxicated from drugs.
high as a kite	Definitions include: very high.
high ball	Definitions include: the upper range of an estimated figure.
high baller	Definitions include: a person who makes large sums of money.
high-beams	Definitions include: erect nipples.
high budget	Definitions include: of extreme high quality, expensive to a point that it becomes unattainable.
High Class White Trash	Definitions include: a intelligent, sophisticated person who comes from a poor or middle class family.
high cotton	Definitions include: see in high cotton.
higher than giraffe ears	Definitions include: very high; excessively high.
higher than tube socks	Definitions include: very high.
high-fallootin	Definitions include: pie-in-the-sky, fancy, crazy and elitist.
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Other terms relating to 'tone':
dial tone	Definitions include: a bore, dullard.
tone-deaf	Definitions include: offensive due to being oblivious of or not considering sensitive issues.

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