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high-top en · NOUN
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A kind of sports shoe that extends significantly over the wearer's ankle.
His canvas high-tops were still perfectly folded over, and the white rubber toe was still white.
2020, Diane Cook, The New Wilderness, Oneworld Publications, page 263:Got your tongue pierced anyway / You in your high-tops any day / You in your skinny jeans anyway
2012, “Sex”, performed by The 1975: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:
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A faded hairstyle in which the hair is allowed to grow tall above the fade.
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