high-water

English

Adjective

high-water (comparative more high-water, superlative most high-water)

1. (of trousers) Being or resembling highwaters, long pants with a noticeable gap between the hem and the top of the wearer's foot; hence, short.
   • 1992, Darryl Pinckney, High Cotton: A Novel:

     Their hair almost bounced, their braces flashed in the fluorescent light, and they had my sisters' permission to make comments about my “high-water” trousers.

   • 2006, Rigoberto González, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, page 195:

     I took these hemmed-up pants with me to college, and by the end of the year they were all high-water jeans because at eighteen I was still growing.

   • 2013, James S. Lowry, The Long Road Home and Other Short Stories from the Silences in the Gospel of Mark:

     The day Pappy brought Billy Neely to live with us he didn't own anything but one pair of high-water pants: No shoes, no shirt, no toothbrush, no nothing except for one pair of high-water pants.