Usually means: Pretentious or fancy in style.
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  1. highfalutin: Merriam-Webster
  2. highfalutin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. highfalutin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. highfalutin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. highfalutin: Vocabulary.com
  6. highfalutin: Wordnik
  7. highfalutin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. highfalutin: Wiktionary
  9. highfalutin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. highfalutin: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. highfalutin: Dictionary.com
  12. highfalutin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Highfalutin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. highfalutin: Rhymezone
  15. highfalutin: FreeDictionary.org
  16. highfalutin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Highfalutin': The Word Detective
  18. highfalutin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. highfalutin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. highfalutin: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. highfalutin, highfalutin, highfalutin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. highfalutin: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  (US, informal) Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical.
noun:  (archaic) Pompous speech or writing.

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