knee-high
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
knee-high (not comparable)
- Reaching to the height of a person's knees.
- Coordinate terms: chest-high, waist-high, waist-deep
- Near-synonym: knee-deep
- knee-high by the Fourth of July
- The corn is knee-high.
- (by extension) Very young
- 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 207:
- John Fred Gourrier had been listening to Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, and the Spiders since he was knee-high.
Translations edit
Reaching to the height of a person's knees
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Noun edit
knee-high (plural knee-highs)
- (US, usually in the plural) A sock or stocking that reaches to the knees; chiefly, women's nylon stockings that end slightly above the knee and supported by garter belts.
Synonyms edit
- pop sock (UK)
Translations edit
sock that reaches almost up to the knee
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