highball
C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
To open with an inflated figure well above what one expects to settle at.
The seller highballed the asking price, leaving ample room to look generous later.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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