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knee-length

knee-length adjective: reaching to the knee.

Adjective

knee-length (not comparable)

  1. Reaching to the knee.
    • Jane stood out in a trendy top, matching mini skirt and black knee-length socks.
    • The principal made her change out of a knee-length skirt she wore to school into a pair of sweatpants.

Questions about knee-length

What does knee-length mean?
Knee-length means reaching to the knee.
What part of speech is knee-length?
Knee-length is an adjective.

Words near knee-length in the dictionary

  1. knee-jerkish
  2. knee-jerkishly
  3. knee-jerkism
  4. knee-jerks
  5. knee-jerky
  6. knee-length
  7. knee-pad
  8. knee-paddle
  9. knee-paddled
  10. knee-paddles
  11. knee-paddling

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