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high-heel en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, of footwear) Having high heels.
   • Routine dress for Tuesday will be bra and panties with high-heel satin mules. 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 29:

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high-heeled

high-heel en · VERB

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1. (transitive) To walk in high heels.
   • She high-heeled it into the auditorium, catching up with her friends, and they all admired one another's dresses and hair and started dancing in a group. 2008, Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does it Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America:
   • Not even the heart of one of the delectable slim-legged ponlettes who high-heel in swarms wherever the celluloid Napoleons decree a sceneful of "extras, female"; no, nothing but a downy, cuddly chick that eventually grows up into a cackling, flowerbed-scratching Biddy, with no ambition beyond inspiring omelets and eventually herself becoming casserole filling. 1932, Science News - Volumes 21-22, page 178:
   • Rosemary, brown bosom, flaming dress, flashing ring, high-heeled vigorously over Crabbe's large drawing-room as the sun set setting out nuts and pretzels, perking up nodding flowers. 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 482:
   • Thankfully, Dominic was passing the front door as she high-heeled her way out. 2004, Kate Thompson, A Perfect Life, page 74:

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