high-top

See also: hightop, and high top

English

Alternative forms

• hightop, high top
• hi-top (informal)

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.