highflier

[ hahy-flahy-er ]

/ ˈhaɪˈflaɪ ər /

a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.

a person or thing that flies high.

a stock, often speculative, whose price moves up or down widely.

Origin of highflier

First recorded in 1680–90; high + flier

"He must be a high-flyer of a cat," and the old man chuckled over his joke.

The Bobbsey Twins |Laura Lee Hope
I ain't no high-flyer myse'f. I fear'd ter shake han's wid you so fur off, Brer Rabbit.'

Nights With Uncle Remus |Joel Chandler Harris
She certainly was not one of the high-flyer yachts which had been bought up for service in the Confederate navy.

On The Blockade |Oliver Optic
Here we have our author in evening dress, passing as a man of society at a banquet of the rich, shadowing a "high-flyer" crook.

Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World |Clifton R. Wooldridge

I aint no high-flyer myse'f. I fear'd ter shake han's wid you so fur off, Brer Rabbit.'

Nights With Uncle Remus |Joel Chandler Harris

high-flyer

a person who is extreme in aims, ambition, etc

a person of great ability, esp in a career