"high-water" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more high-water",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most high-water",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1992, Darryl Pinckney, High Cotton: A Novel",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Rigoberto González, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, page 195",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, James S. Lowry, The Long Road Home and Other Short Stories from the Silences in the Gospel of Mark",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Being or resembling highwaters, long pants with a noticeable gap between the hem and the top of the wearer's foot; hence, short."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of trousers) Being or resembling highwaters, long pants with a noticeable gap between the hem and the top of the wearer's foot; hence, short."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of trousers"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "high-water"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more high-water",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most high-water",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1992, Darryl Pinckney, High Cotton: A Novel",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Rigoberto González, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, page 195",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, James S. Lowry, The Long Road Home and Other Short Stories from the Silences in the Gospel of Mark",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Being or resembling highwaters, long pants with a noticeable gap between the hem and the top of the wearer's foot; hence, short."
      ],
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        "(of trousers) Being or resembling highwaters, long pants with a noticeable gap between the hem and the top of the wearer's foot; hence, short."
      ],
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        "of trousers"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "high-water"
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