Definition of "highwire" [highwire]

• An elevated tightrope. (noun)

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• "Installed as chief executive of the British Paralympic Association BPA last month, he is charged with delivering a highwire act with a year remaining until the Games."
• "Sometimes I feel like I am walking on a highwire, and sometimes I drive to California in a silver Dodge sedan, only to discover that I have not left the couch, but am lost in a cloud of smoke, a bowl of opium at my side."
• "He had asked a fellow Forum participator, Philippe Petit, the French highwire artist, to teach him how to walk the tightrope."