adjective
- as high as the knees.
noun
- knee-highs. Also knee highs, knee-hi’s, knee his. socks, stockings, or boots that cover the lower legs to just below the knees.
adjective
- another word for knee-deep (def. 1)
- as high as the kneea knee-high child
1743, from knee (n.) + high (adj.). Phrase knee-high to a grasshopper first recorded 1851 (earliest form was knee-high to a toad, 1814).