high roller

Simmons, an instinctive high roller (his chief assistant was even named "Mogel"), did not require much convincing.

At a high-roller Democratic fundraiser on Park Avenue last month, a California lawyer dismissed the Whitman challenge.

I laid off, and Miles Diston took the high-roller out next trip.

He had been a high roller in his day, I guess, but had of late been on his uppers.

He 's a high roller, right in with the judge and his crew, and there is n't a more corrupt politician in this town.

He had been a "high roller" until he came under the Rev. Mr. Borrowscale's tutelage.

Fatty Welch was "working" some swell guys who thought he was a real high-roller.