high-heel

1. not comparableHaving high heels.

   Routine dress for Tuesday will be bra and panties with high-heel satin mules.

   1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 29

   Synonyms: high-heeled

present singular third person high-heels · participle present high-heeling · participle past high-heeled · past high-heeled

1. transitiveTo walk in high heels.

   Thankfully, Dominic was passing the front door as she high-heeled her way out.

   2004, Kate Thompson, A Perfect Life, page 74

   3 more examples

   Not even the heart of one of the delectable slim-legged ponlettes who high-heel in swarms wherever the celluloid Napoleons decree a sceneful of "extras, female"; no, nothing but a downy, cuddly chick that eventually grows up into a cackling, flowerbed-scratching Biddy, with no ambition beyond inspiring omelets and eventually herself becoming casserole filling.

   1932, Science News - Volumes 21-22, page 178

   Rosemary, brown bosom, flaming dress, flashing ring, high-heeled vigorously over Crabbe's large drawing-room as the sun set setting out nuts and pretzels, perking up nodding flowers.

   1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 482

   She high-heeled it into the auditorium, catching up with her friends, and they all admired one another's dresses and hair and started dancing in a group.

   2008, Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does it Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America