knee-high
as high as the knees.
knee-highs. Also knee highs, knee-hi's, knee his . socks, stockings, or boots that cover the lower legs to just below the knees.
Origin of knee-high
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How to use knee-high in a sentence
He is wearing jeans, a T-shirt, and bright white knee-high rubber boots.
Look Out! There’s a Craft-Beer Revolution Taking Over France | Jeff Campagna | December 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“The water was knee high, and there were bodies floating in the streets,” she said.
Typhoon Haiyan Survivor Describes Utter Devastation in the Philippines | The Telegraph | November 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTLike Bieber, Assaf was discovered when he was still knee-high to a grasshopper.
The Next Arab Idol: Palestine's Boy Wonder and Stereotype Buster | Maysoon Zayid | May 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTShe 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 ——!
Four Years in Rebel Capitals | T. C. DeLeonI 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.
Betty Lee, Freshman | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)Raised right in the same town with him, from a kid knee-high to a grasshopper!
Fore! | Charles Emmett Van LoanJack will bring some knee-high moosehide moccasins—no machine-made junk, either.
The Rogue Elephant | Elliott WhitneyUya following stopped knee-high across the stream, and the man who was swimming turned about.
Tales of Space and Time | Herbert George Wells
British Dictionary definitions for knee-high
another word for knee-deep (def. 1)
as high as the knee: a knee-high child
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