knee-high

From knee +‎ high.

knee-high (not comparable)

1. Reaching to the height of a person's knees.

   Coordinate terms: chest-high, waist-high, waist-deep

   Near-synonym: knee-deep

   knee-high by the Fourth of July

   The corn is knee-high.

2. (by extension) Very young
   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 207:

     John Fred Gourrier had been listening to Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, and the Spiders since he was knee-high.

knee-high (plural knee-highs)

1. (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.

• pop sock (UK)

• knee-high to a grasshopper
• Knee highs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia