high-stepper
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 ● Feb. 2, 2021
It would also help if that high-stepper from Strictly Come Dancing came back into the fold.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 3, 2010
"It's something to tell your children about," said Anita Saunders, a high-stepper with the Locke Senior High School marching band, "and everybody else."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a pretty good price, but it was a high-stepper, a flyer, a beauty.
From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by McGovern, John
“Once I run with a high-stepper from Bowlin’ Green, Kentucky, and she told me better nor that,” he explained.
From 'Me--Smith' by Hoskins, Gayle Porter
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