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high top

high top is the alternative 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 high top

pluralhigh tops

Questions about high top

What is high top the alternative form of?
High top is the alternative form of high-top.

Words near high top in the dictionary

  1. high tides
  2. high time
  3. high times
  4. high tobies
  5. high toby
  6. high top
  7. high tops
  8. High Tories
  9. High Tory
  10. High Toryism
  11. high touch

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