Definition of "thigh-high" [thigh-high]

• Reaching up to the thighs: thigh-high waves. (adjective)
• A sock or stocking that extends to cover part of the thigh. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The spoiled bank heiress had, apparently, gone shopping and found a pair of shiny gold, thigh-high platform boots not unlike the red ones Menessos had provided me for the Erus Veneficus ceremony."
• "If you ask me, thigh-high platform boots should be outlawed."
• "It was a very sexy gown with a thigh-high slit in the front."