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knee-high

[ adjective nee-hahy; noun nee-hahy ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

knee-highs. Also knee highs, knee-hi's, knee his. socks, stockings, or boots that cover the lower legs to just below the knees.

knee-high

An Americanism dating back to 1735–45

He is wearing jeans, a T-shirt, and bright white knee-high rubber boots.

“The water was knee high, and there were bodies floating in the streets,” she said.

Like Bieber, Assaf was discovered when he was still knee-high to a grasshopper.

She took the podium in a black McQueen waistcoat embroidered with gold flowers and knee-high leather boots.

She was wearing knee-high black gladiator-style lacy leather boots by Azzedine Alaïa, the opposite of light and breezy.

I knowed her when she wasn't knee high—and yer done —— —— well, by ——!

I used to feel that way, too, Betty, and I had a lake to swim in from the time I was knee-high to a duck.

Raised right in the same town with him, from a kid knee-high to a grasshopper!

Jack will bring some knee-high moosehide moccasins—no machine-made junk, either.

Uya following stopped knee-high across the stream, and the man who was swimming turned about.

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