# Also highs, high balls, high ones.In eight-ball and related games, to be shooting the striped suit (group) of balls (9 through 15); "you're high balls" or "I've got the highs" ("you're high" is rare, because of the "intoxication" ambiguity). Compare stripes, yellows, big ones, overs; contrast low. This is from Wikipedia's wonderful billiard/snooker glossary, found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_cue_sports_terms
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Stripes. In 8 Ball, players refer to the numbered balls as either High and Low, or, Stripes and Solids. The high balls are also the striped balls.
There aren't any high balls in billiards.
I think you are referring to snooker. You have the balck ball at value 7 points in snooker and is the high value ball.