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high-top, a. and n. orig. and chiefly U.S.
Brit. |ˈhʌɪtɒp|, U.S. |ˈhaɪˌtɑp|
[‹ high adj. + top n.1]
A. adj. Designating an object, an item of clothing, etc., the top section of which is unusually tall or long; spec. designating a shoe or boot (now esp. a soft-soled sports shoe with a laced upper) that extends some distance above the wearer's ankle.
1845S. Judd Margaret i. vi. 35 The chairs were high-top, flat-back, heavy mahogany. 1845S. Judd Margaret i. viii. 47 He wore a tarpaulin and blue jacket, a pair of high-top boots with spurs and leather trousers. 1872Z. N. Morrell Flowers & Fruits from Wilderness xi. 129 He was dressed in elegant style..with a high-top silk hat. 1889F. E. Willard Glimpses of Fifty Years iii. ii. 117 We had to follow after her, in our high-top boots. 1891Scribner's Mag. May 600/2 There is always a glimpse from Broadway of an array of high-top hats. 1900C. G. D. Roberts By Marshes of Minas 256 His feet were incased in high-top moccasins. 1925T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. II. iii. v. 113 There lay revealed..a pair of not too good high-top winter shoes. 1955F. O'Connor Wise Blood vii. 125 He wore hightop shoes and gray socks. 1973Sunday Bull. (Philadelphia) 14 Oct. (Discover Suppl.) 4/2 Bob wore high-top sneakers and got barely enough protection. 1985J. Simmons et al. My Adidas (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 273, I wear my Adidas when I rock the beat On stage, front page, every show I go It's Adidas on my feet, high top or low. 1993T. Parker May Lord in his Mercy be Kind to Belfast x. 160 He wore a threadbare black bomber jacket, tattered jeans, and an old pair of high-top trainers.
B. n.
1. In pl. High-top boots or shoes, esp. sports shoes.
1953S. Bellow Adventures of Augie March ii. 23 She bought me a pair of winter hightops with a jack-knife on the side. 1985Christian Sci. Monitor 17 May 32/3 He inspires others to give their maximum effort by his example, which is one of the reasons a three-year Celtics' slide was ended the minute the ‘hick from French Lick’ laced up his Kelly-green high-tops. 1989Elle June 226/3 Asked to define thrash wear (adopted by nearly every L.A. highschooler and musician), one devotee says, ‘It's the old clothes your brother wore when fixing the car. Ripped, Levi's shorts, old T-shirts, high tops.’ 1992A. Maupin Maybe Moon xvi. 214 He unlaced his high-tops, tugged them off, and flopped down on the bed next to me. 1997Esquire July 103/1 He was dressed today in black high-tops, baggy black ripstop pants, and a black poloshirt.
2. = high-top fade n. at Special uses.
1989Ebony Sept. 66/1 [He] says he's always worn an eccentric haircut... ‘Whether it was the ‘High Top’, ‘Angle’ or ‘Gumby Cut’, they all attracted comments from friends and stares from the curious.’ 1992O. Goldsmith First Wives Club ii. xvi. 285 His hair was different. Instead of the Afro he had worn, it was in one of those new [printed hew] hairdos, a high-top. 1993N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Apr. b3/1 His reddish, dreadlocked hair was worn in a stylized high-top. 1999Evening Post (Bristol) 16 Sept. 8 When he was younger he had an almighty high-top hair cut.
Special uses. high-top fade n. a hairstyle, popular (chiefly among African-Americans) in the early 1990s, in which the sides and back of the head are closely cropped but the hair on the top of the head stands up in a tall block shape; cf. fade n.1
1989Orange County (Santa Ana, Calif.) Reg. 1 Mar. d7/6 Now, about that haircut... He calls it the ‘Jersey Cut’ or ‘*High-top Fade’, because his favorite rap music group, ‘Kid N' Play’, wears the same style, and that's what they call it. 1992Vibe Fall (Preview Issue) 96/1 There was another change. The high-top fade-cum-sideways-slashed Gumby was gone. The haircut that..had Japanese teenagers growing their hair out and up. 1997Washington Post (Nexis) 5 Jan. g1 He still retains the right to his country-ness, accentuated by his Afro high-top fade. 2001Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 4 Mar. 124 He wanted a high-top fade with his name carved on the sides, like every other kid in elementary school. |