knee-high Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a sock or stocking that reaches up to just below the knees
    knee-hi.
  2. adverb up to the knees
    knee-deep.
    • we were standing knee-deep in the water

WordNet


Knee"-high` adjective
Definitions
  1. Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high.

Webster 1913