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WAIST-HIGH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does waist-high mean?
• WAIST-HIGH (adverb)
The adverb WAIST-HIGH has 1 sense:
1. up to the waist
Familiarity information: WAIST-HIGH used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Up to the waist
Synonyms:
waist-deep; waist-high
Context example:
the water rose waist-high
Context examples
Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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