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comparative more high-water, superlative most high-water
(of trousers) Being or resembling highwaters, long pants with a noticeable gap between the hem and the top of the wearer's foot; hence, short. quotations examples
Their hair almost bounced, their braces flashed in the fluorescent light, and they had my sisters' permission to make comments about my “high-water” trousers.
1992, Darryl Pinckney, High Cotton: A Novel
I took these hemmed-up pants with me to college, and by the end of the year they were all high-water jeans because at eighteen I was still growing.
2006, Rigoberto González, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, page 195
The day Pappy brought Billy Neely to live with us he didn't own anything but one pair of high-water pants: No shoes, no shirt, no toothbrush, no nothing except for one pair of high-water pants.
2013, James S. Lowry, The Long Road Home and Other Short Stories from the Silences in the Gospel of Mark