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high-heel

high-heel adjective: having high heels.

Adjective

high-heel (not comparable)

  1. Having high heels.
    • Routine dress for Tuesday will be bra and panties with high-heel satin mules.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 29
    Synonyms:
    high-heeled

Verb

high-heel (third-person singular simple present high-heels, present participle high-heeling, simple past and past participle high-heeled)

  1. (transitive) To walk in high heels.
    • Not even the heart of one of the delectable slim-legged ponlettes who high-heel in swarms wherever the celluloid Napoleons decree a sceneful of "extras, female"; no, nothing but a downy, cuddly chick that eventually grows up into a cackling, flowerbed-scratching Biddy, with no ambition beyond...1932, Science News - Volumes 21-22, page 178
    • Rosemary, brown bosom, flaming dress, flashing ring, high-heeled vigorously over Crabbe's large drawing-room as the sun set setting out nuts and pretzels, perking up nodding flowers.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 482

Examples of high-heel in a sentence

  • Thankfully, Dominic was passing the front door as she high-heeled her way out.2004, Kate Thompson, A Perfect Life, page 74:
  • She high-heeled it into the auditorium, catching up with her friends, and they all admired one another's dresses and hair and started dancing in a group.2008, Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does it Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America:

Synonyms of high-heel

Forms of high-heel

third-person singular presenthigh-heels
present participlehigh-heeling
past participlehigh-heeled
pasthigh-heeled

Questions about high-heel

What does high-heel mean?
High-heel means having high heels.
How do you use high-heel in a sentence?
Thankfully, Dominic was passing the front door as she high-heeled her way out.
What part of speech is high-heel?
High-heel can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near high-heel in the dictionary

  1. high-hatted
  2. high-hatting
  3. high-hearted
  4. high-heartedly
  5. high-heartedness
  6. high-heel
  7. high-heeled
  8. high-heeling
  9. high-heels
  10. high-holder
  11. high-holders

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