Usually means: Reaches up to the knee.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word knee-high:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. knee-high: Merriam-Webster
  2. knee-high: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. knee-high: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. knee-high, knee-high: Collins English Dictionary
  5. knee-high: Vocabulary.com
  6. Knee-high, knee-high: Wordnik
  7. knee-high: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. knee-high: Wiktionary
  9. knee-high: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. knee-high: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. knee-high: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Knee-high, knee-high: Dictionary.com
  13. Knee-high: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. knee-high: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. knee-high: Rhymezone
  16. Knee-high: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. knee-high: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. knee-high: FreeDictionary.org
  19. knee-high: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. knee-high: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knee-high: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See knee-highs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see knee, high: reaching to the height of a person's knees.
adjective:  (by extension) Very young
noun:  (US, usually in the plural) A sock or stocking that reaches to the knees; chiefly, women's nylon stockings that end slightly above the knee and supported by garter belts.

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