Definition of "high-top" [high•-top]

• A kind of sports shoe that extends significantly over the wearer's ankle. (noun)

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• "In the late 1980s, Michael Berrin of Far Rockaway, Queens, grabbed the mic and the stage name MC Serch, styled his kinky hair into a “high-top fade,” busted MC Hammer–type dance moves, and became one of the leading rappers of his time."
• "They may be regular newspaper readers, but chances are they high-top it from one newspaper to another, which is one of the gloriously liberating things about online."
• "I was bending over to get my L.L. Bean high-top hunting shoes — which I use to track wayward clients through snowy forests primeval — when a shiny metallic object caught my eye."