heister

heister

(ˈhɑɪstɚ)
n. a drunkard, who lifts or heists drinks. Two old heisters were lifting drink after drink and tossing them down.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • into the drink
  • be in the drink
  • What's your poison?
  • What are you drinking?
  • What are you having?
  • What would you like to drink?
  • name your poison
  • gargle
  • pick your poison
  • drink under the table
References in periodicals archive
As an established millwork operation, Heister Millwork's knife room has an extensive collection of cutters and profile knives.
Each plant shares its methods: wood factories reveal production methods keys on WCMA Tech Tours
100-108; Matthias Heister, Rentabilitatsanalyse von Investitionen (profitability analysis of investment projects), Westdeutscher Verlag, Koln, Germany, 1962; Heinz Lothar Grob, Capital Budgeting with Financial Plans: An Introduction, Gabler, Wiesbaden, Germany, 1993.
VOFI: a more realistic method for investment appraisal
The issue is this: "We're moving material that's at the heart of the investigation," Heister said.
Cleanup stalls at mill site
Gels are inherently safer than liquids because they don't leak, said Stephen Heister, Purdue University professor of aeronautics and astronautics.
Rocket marmalade
Heister, Johannes, Patrick Karani, Kerri Poore, Chandra Shekhar Sinha and Rolf Selrod.
Bibliography
In the third move of game one, Mujeeb Rahman, an office manager, came up with "heister" for 81 points, giving him a healthy start.
Scrabble ace retains his Bramco title
Yet utopian aspirations for a new social and spiritual order resurged when the war ended in 1918, as conveyed by Moriz Melzer's Gewitter uber Mittelberg (Lightning over Mittelberg; 1919), Hans Siebert yon Heister's Anger, and Magnus Zeller's The Orator.
Taking a new route through modern art: as part of its Transformation project, Los Angeles County Museum of Art's collections of 20th-century art have been reinstalled in the Ahmanson Building. As Stephanie Barron explains, the collection has itself been transformed by a munificent gift of 130 paintings, sculptures and drawings from Janice and Henri Lazarof, which includes 20 works by Picasso
Among the foreign critics was Sweden's Chris Heister, of the conservative party, Moderaterna, who told the Danish broadsheet newspaper, Politiken, that "it is a picture with a very strong message, and as we all know, a picture speaks more than a thousand words" (qtd.
Visual argumentation in Scandinavian political advertising: a cognitive, contextual and reception oriented approach
Similarly, one of William Hunter's introductory lectures to students states that the study of anatomy "informs the Head, guides the hand, and familiarizes the heart to a kind of necessary Inhumanity." (11) Again and again, accounts illustrate the importance of becoming "reconciled" to such "necessary Inhumanity." According to Lorenz Heister's A General System of Surgery (1745),
"A kind of necessary inhumanity": cultivating negative capability through the clinical gaze
* Heister, David, "Trends in High-speed Backplane Design," RTC Magazine, January 2007.
Packaging & interconnects: signals take backplane routes
Heister Dean Guie, a writer for the Yakima city newspaper, helped her along, and McWhorter continued to offer encouragement.
Christine Quintasket: author found literary success as Mourning Dove
(29.) Harteveld KL, Heister AJ, Giordano PC, Losekoot M, Bernini LF.
Microsatellite markers within [sup.--SEA] breakpoints for prenatal diagnosis of HbBarts hydrops fetalis
The consumption and effects of music occur in an "area of tension" between different factors that Palmgreen, Wenner and Rosengren (1985) examined in their "general media gratification model." First of all, one should not consider music consumption independently from the respective society and cultural system (Adorno, 1962; Heister, 1993; Rosing & Oerter, 1993).
Consumption and effects of music in the media
Much of Illinois is agrarian with fence rows and corridors for movement (Neely and Heister, 1987).
Distribution of the long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata) in Illinois
Four exploratory studies (Kirchdorfer and Heister, 1983; Riebenfeld and Borzone, 1986; Grontved et al., 1988; Schmid et al., 1994) investigating the incidence of nausea and vomiting caused by traveling (one of which has been confirmatory, Schmid et al., 1994) showed that powdered ginger was as effective as other antiemetics and possibly better than placebo in reducing motion sickness.
Zingiberis rhizoma: a comprehensive review on the ginger effect and efficacy profiles