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hi-top

hi-top is the informal form of high-top.

Meaning of high-top

Noun

high-top (plural high-tops)

  1. A kind of sports shoe that extends significantly over the wearer's ankle.
    • When not clad in standard issue dress shoes, Turner wears a mean pair of hightops.1990 April 14, Elizabeth Pincus, “Hot Blue Steel”, in Gay Community News, page 16
  2. A faded hairstyle in which the hair is allowed to grow tall above the fade.

Forms of hi-top

pluralhi-tops

Questions about hi-top

What is hi-top the informal form of?
Hi-top is the informal form of high-top.

Words near hi-top in the dictionary

  1. hi-rises
  2. hi-score
  3. hi-scores
  4. hi-spy-hi
  5. hi-tech
  6. hi-top
  7. hi-tops
  8. hi-vis
  9. hi-viz
  10. hi-wa itck
  11. hi-way

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hi-top (page history and authors); high-top (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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