high-top

See also: hightop and high top

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Noun

high-top (plural high-tops)

  1. A kind of sports shoe that extends significantly over the wearer's ankle.
    • 1990 April 14, Elizabeth Pincus, “Hot Blue Steel”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
      When not clad in standard issue dress shoes, Turner wears a mean pair of hightops.
    • 2012, “Sex”, performed by The 1975:
      Got your tongue pierced anyway / You in your high-tops any day / You in your skinny jeans anyway
    • 2020, Diane Cook, The New Wilderness, Oneworld Publications, page 263:
      His canvas high-tops were still perfectly folded over, and the white rubber toe was still white.
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