Definition of "high-up" [high-up]

• An important or influential person. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Ms. Savage uses it to reach high-up shelves and leaves it out as part of the décor."
• "A thick antique wood ladder sits in the middle of Ms. Savage's sterile white kitchen; she needs it to help her reach high-up shelves and leaves it out as part of the décor."
• "Even famously unsuccessful character Cut My Own Throat Dibbler would be too high-up for this street level."