high-stepper
Britishnoun
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“But yellow shoes,” she added, “those would be extraordinary. You had to be a high-stepper to have them or to wear them or to pay for them.”
From Los Angeles Times
Come to find out, she thought that back before I got married, when I was a high-stepper and chased girls, I had led Jackie astray.
From Golf Digest
She's a high-stepper, that Jeanne, and I should pity the man who got her and didn't understand her.
From Project Gutenberg
My, wasn’t she a high-stepper, purty as they make ’em; but her hair couldn’t shine along o’ Bess’s here.
From Project Gutenberg
On revisiting the earth it is found that the owner of a high-stepper, threatened with speed, can now only lead a shame-faced kind of existence.
From Project Gutenberg
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