"high sign" meaning in All languages combined

See high sign on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: high signs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} high sign (plural high signs)
  1. A covert gesture serving as a signal.
    Sense id: en-high_sign-en-noun-wEQOVs1O Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "source": "w"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)",
          "text": "The gaunt, hard-looking man is driving. Marlowe leans forward and gives the cabby the high sign."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A covert gesture serving as a signal."
      ],
      "id": "en-high_sign-en-noun-wEQOVs1O",
      "links": [
        [
          "covert",
          "covert"
        ],
        [
          "gesture",
          "gesture"
        ],
        [
          "signal",
          "signal"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "high sign"
}

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      ]
    }
  ],
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)",
          "text": "The gaunt, hard-looking man is driving. Marlowe leans forward and gives the cabby the high sign."
        }
      ],
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        "A covert gesture serving as a signal."
      ],
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