thigh-high

[thahy-hahy]

adjective

1. extending as high as the thighs.

noun

1. a garment for the lower body, as a stocking or boot, that reaches the thigh.

Word History and Origins

Origin of thigh-high¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

A month before, I stood thigh-high in a field of broccoli.

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With WWF's ocean conservation specialist, Tom Brook as our guide, we waded through the thigh-high grass to visit the site of the experiment.

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Hollywood Hailey, with her long blond hair, rocked a tennis dress, thigh-high socks and baseball cap.

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A radiant Cher then emerges from the pack wearing a costume Bob Mackie later called “the seatbelt outfit”: a leather jacket thrown over a sheer fishnet body stocking with matching thigh-high tights and a leather G-string/thong that resembled a skimpy swimsuit.

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We were coming in the wet season, and had to hike around nine, nine and a half hours in, sometimes thigh-high mud in sometimes 45 degree incline, the hardest hike of everyone's life who participated in that.

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