Definition of "sky-high" [sky•-high]

• To a very high level: The garbage was piled sky-high. (adverb)
• In a lavish or enthusiastic manner: The critics praised the play sky-high. (adverb)
• In pieces or to pieces; apart: Sappers blew the bridge sky-high. (adverb)
• High up in the air: sky-high trees. (adjective)
• Exorbitantly high in cost or value: sky-high prices; sky-high stocks. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The thing blew sky-high, which is why the young Mountie found little more than smoldering earth."
• "The penthouse thereafter became an object of global attention, and penthouse became a Global English word whose stock rose sky-high."
• "Hong Kong's sky-high home prices are the highest among those surveyed in a report by research firm Demographia."