high wire

1. 1.

   a tightrope very high above the ground

   Broadertightrope

Questions about high wire

What does high wire mean?

high wire means "a tightrope very high above the ground".

Is high wire a common word?

high wire is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.