Meaning of high-water | Babel Free

Definitions

Being or resembling highwaters, long pants with a noticeable gap between the hem and the top of the wearer's foot; hence, short.

Examples

“Their hair almost bounced, their braces flashed in the fluorescent light, and they had my sisters' permission to make comments about my “high-water” trousers.”

“I took these hemmed-up pants with me to college, and by the end of the year they were all high-water jeans because at eighteen I was still growing.”

“The day Pappy brought Billy Neely to live with us he didn't own anything but one pair of high-water pants: No shoes, no shirt, no toothbrush, no nothing except for one pair of high-water pants.”

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