high-wire-walker

plural high-wire-walkers

1. alternativeAlternative form of highwire walker.

   You never know if this might be the night that the high-wire-walker loses his balance and fails to recover.

   2017 February 3, Théoden Janes, “Go see the circus, one last time”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 148, number 34, Charlotte, N.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11C, column 2

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   A high-wire-walker appeared on our streets last Thursday afternoon and performed some wonderful feats on a small wire cable stretched across Chestnut street, from the top of Leonard Smith’s block, occupied by the Union Drug Store of Denniston, Reinardy & Co to the top of Wheeler’s three-story block over the Free Press office.

   1890 May 14, “Local Jottings”, in W[illia]m A. Colby, editor, Burlington Free Press, volume XI, number 29, Burlington, Wis.: Wm. A. Colby, →OCLC, page [4], column 3

   Fiercely protective and lavishly generous with his family and his close circle of friends, the soft-spoken Cablevision chairman pursues his goals with a self-made man’s stubbornness, a chess master’s patience and a high-wire-walker’s tolerance for risk.

   1997 March 16, William B. Falk, Elizabeth Sanger, “Cable’s Ace: Patriarch [Charles] Dolan has given empire a firm foundation”, in Newsday, New York, N.Y.: Newsday, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A8, column 3