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high-water

high-water adjective: being or resembling highwaters, long pants with a noticeable gap between the hem and the top of the wearer's foot; hence, short.

Adjective

high-water (comparative more high-water, superlative most high-water)

  1. Being or resembling highwaters, long pants with a noticeable gap between the hem and the top of the wearer's foot; hence, short.
    • Their hair almost bounced, their braces flashed in the fluorescent light, and they had my sisters' permission to make comments about my “high-water” trousers.1992, Darryl Pinckney, High Cotton: A Novel
    • I took these hemmed-up pants with me to college, and by the end of the year they were all high-water jeans because at eighteen I was still growing.2006, Rigoberto González, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, page 195

Forms of high-water

comparativemore high-water
superlativemost high-water

Phrases with high-water

Questions about high-water

What does high-water mean?
High-water means being or resembling highwaters, long pants with a noticeable gap between the hem and the top of the wearer's foot; hence, short.
What part of speech is high-water?
High-water is an adjective.

Words near high-water in the dictionary

  1. high-vis
  2. high-visibility
  3. high-voltage
  4. high-voltage transmission line
  5. high-voltage transmission lines
  6. high-water
  7. high-water mark
  8. high-water marks
  9. high-wheeler
  10. high-wheelers
  11. high-wine

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