high-heel

English

Adjective

high-heel (not comparable)

1. (of footwear) having high heels.
   • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 29:

     Routine dress for Tuesday will be bra and panties with high-heel satin mules.

Synonyms

• high-heeled

Verb

high-heel (third-person singular simple present high-heels, present participle high-heeling, simple past and past participle high-heeled)

1. To walk in high heels.
   • 1932, Science News - Volumes 21-22, page 178:

     Not even the heart of one of the delectable slim-legged ponlettes who high-heel in swarms wherever the celluloid Napoleons decree a sceneful of "extras, female"; no, nothing but a downy, cuddly chick that eventually grows up into a cackling, flowerbed-scratching Biddy, with no ambition beyond inspiring omelets and eventually herself becoming casserole filling.

   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 482:

     Rosemary, brown bosom, flaming dress, flashing ring, high-heeled vigorously over Crabbe's large drawing-room as the sun set setting out nuts and pretzels, perking up nodding flowers.

   • 2004, Kate Thompson, A Perfect Life, page 74:

     Thankfully, Dominic was passing the front door as she high-heeled her way out.

   • 2008, Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does it Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America:

     She high-heeled it into the auditorium, catching up with her friends, and they all admired one another's dresses and hair and started dancing in a group.