high-heel

English

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.
    • 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.
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