thigh-high

plural thigh-highs

1. USA hold-up stocking.

   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.

   1999, James Patterson, Pop Goes the Weasel, Headline, →ISBN

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   My bureau drawers were knotted with nylon stockings and "thigh hi's," my closet was cluttered with little pointed shoes.

   1987 April 11, Pamela Wescott, “Judy Grahn: Pursuing the Work We Want”, in Gay Community News, page 8

   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.

   1994 November 14, Richard Schickel, “Wretch on a Sexual Rampage”, in Time

   The resulting outfit: a cape, a breath-stealing corset, and a sheer black skirt atop a black vinyl thong and fishnet thigh-highs.

   1999, Jennifer Wolff, “Vamping with Vampires”, in Cosmopolitan, Jan 99

1. not comparableThat is at thigh level; that reaches up to thigh level.

   Ashley: If you expect to get me in a tinfoil miniskirt and thigh-high boots, I want dinner first.

   2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel

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   Shops' shelves were emptied on Friday as people began stockpiling food, with some unable to leave their homes due to the thigh-high snow.

   2010 February 7, Adam Gabbatt, “Snow storms cause chaos on US east coast”, in The Guardian

1. not comparableUp to the thigh.