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hightop

hightop 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 hightop

pluralhightops

Questions about hightop

What is hightop the alternative form of?
Hightop is the alternative form of high-top.

Words near hightop in the dictionary

  1. highting
  2. hightlight
  3. hightobies
  4. hightoby
  5. Highton
  6. hightop
  7. hightops
  8. Hightower
  9. Hightowers
  10. Hightown
  11. hights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hightop (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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