"thigh-high" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1987 April 11, Pamela Wescott, “Judy Grahn: Pursuing the Work We Want”, in Gay Community News, page 8",
          "text": "My bureau drawers were knotted with nylon stockings and \"thigh hi's,\" my closet was cluttered with little pointed shoes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994 November 14, Richard Schickel, “Wretch on a Sexual Rampage”, in Time",
          "text": "Every once in a while a girl has to stop brooding over gender injustice, start thinking about sexual revenge, and slip into her thigh-highs and stiletto heels to lure a few dopes to destruction.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Jennifer Wolff, “Vamping with Vampires”, in Cosmopolitan, Jan 99",
          "text": "The resulting outfit: a cape, a breath-stealing corset, and a sheer black skirt atop a black vinyl thong and fishnet thigh-highs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, James Patterson, Pop Goes the Weasel, Headline",
          "text": "One of them wore a microskirt, and he could see the tops of black or navy thigh-highs as he stopped to pick them up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A hold-up stocking."
      ],
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        "(chiefly US) A hold-up stocking."
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    }
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  "word": "thigh-high"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel",
          "text": "Ashley: If you expect to get me in a tinfoil miniskirt and thigh-high boots, I want dinner first.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 February 7, Adam Gabbatt, “Snow storms cause chaos on US east coast”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Shops' shelves were emptied on Friday as people began stockpiling food, with some unable to leave their homes due to the thigh-high snow.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That is at thigh level; that reaches up to thigh level."
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "at thigh level",
          "word": "lårhög"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "thigh-high"
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      "glosses": [
        "Up to the thigh."
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          "ref": "1987 April 11, Pamela Wescott, “Judy Grahn: Pursuing the Work We Want”, in Gay Community News, page 8",
          "text": "My bureau drawers were knotted with nylon stockings and \"thigh hi's,\" my closet was cluttered with little pointed shoes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994 November 14, Richard Schickel, “Wretch on a Sexual Rampage”, in Time",
          "text": "Every once in a while a girl has to stop brooding over gender injustice, start thinking about sexual revenge, and slip into her thigh-highs and stiletto heels to lure a few dopes to destruction.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Jennifer Wolff, “Vamping with Vampires”, in Cosmopolitan, Jan 99",
          "text": "The resulting outfit: a cape, a breath-stealing corset, and a sheer black skirt atop a black vinyl thong and fishnet thigh-highs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1999, James Patterson, Pop Goes the Weasel, Headline",
          "text": "One of them wore a microskirt, and he could see the tops of black or navy thigh-highs as he stopped to pick them up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hold-up stocking."
      ],
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        "(chiefly US) A hold-up stocking."
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  "word": "thigh-high"
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          "ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel",
          "text": "Ashley: If you expect to get me in a tinfoil miniskirt and thigh-high boots, I want dinner first.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 February 7, Adam Gabbatt, “Snow storms cause chaos on US east coast”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Shops' shelves were emptied on Friday as people began stockpiling food, with some unable to leave their homes due to the thigh-high snow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That is at thigh level; that reaches up to thigh level."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "at thigh level",
      "word": "lårhög"
    }
  ],
  "word": "thigh-high"
}

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      "glosses": [
        "Up to the thigh."
      ],
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