HIGH AS A KITE Definition & Meaning

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Intoxicated, as by alcohol, as in After three beers she's high as a kite . The adjective high has been used in the sense of 鈥渄runk鈥� since the early 1600s; the addition of kite dates from the early 1900s. The phrase is now used of disorientation due to any drug.

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Rick, high as a kite and feeling a kinship to the misunderstood animals, takes it upon himself to set some of the snakes free.

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He鈥檚 very happy with all three, John says, but he had a difficult time watching some of the footage of himself at the peak of his early success 鈥� knowing full well that he was either 鈥渉igh as a kite,鈥� to borrow a Bernie Taupin line, or severely depressed and lonely.

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An 18-year-old 鈥渉igh as a kite鈥� at a Bob Marley concert.

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"They didn鈥檛 care at all. The kids were going crazy. They were as high as a kite," he said.

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Ramsey made a brisk return and ultimately borrowed Dave Grohl鈥檚 iconic giant custom-made, light-up throne that the Foo Fighters headman designed while "high as a kite" as Grohl was nursing his own leg injury in 2015.

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