high-top

or hightop

adjective

First recorded in 1980–85

He once put Casey Stengel on high-top skates to hype a roller derby in Oakland.

My most prized possession was a pair of leather high top boots with a pouch on the side for a jack knife.

It was of light blue mousselaine-de-laine, made with a "half-high top" and elbow sleeves, and trimmed with cheap lace.

He wore heavy, high-top boots and buff gauntlets, and his soft black felt hat was slouched down over his eyes.

While saying this, he was driving off the fluttering, cackling poultry, by kicking at them with his high top-boots.

The side-board was nearly eight feet long, with six claw feet, and a high top.

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