high heels
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2.7
- noun
- /haɪ hilz/
:
zapato de tacón
- Many women choose high heels for special occasions to enhance their outfit.
- wear high heels
So to me, success was a business suit, high heels, corner office.
- So to me, success was a business suit, high heels, corner office.
- It makes me think of lipstick and high heels.
- And I was wearing high heels, right?
- I mean, literally, I was wearing glitter top, glitter high heels.
- What is the painting with Bill Clinton wearing a dress and red high heels?
- Look at the costumes, you know, and the, and the skin tight cat suits and the mini skirts and the high heels.
- Vintage tea, brand new phone, high heels on cobblestone.
Examples
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Winnie comes in through the glass double doors of the emergency room, her high heels clicking on the linoleum.
Fiction book (1990) -
Studies show that men find women who are wearing high heels more attractive.
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So to me, success was a business suit, high heels, corner office.
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But do you think that high heels are going to come back after this?
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When you wear high heels, your whole posture changes.
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And I'm standing there in my high heels, no jacket, no umbrella, in the rain.
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And I remember when my mother put on her high heels, put on her best dress and walked over to the Sears and got a minimum wage job.
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Women having lunch wear nylons, high heels, and imitation pearl necklaces.
Fiction book (1995) -
I stepped behind an evergreen hedge and listened to the sound of her high heels tapping on the concrete.
Fiction book (1993) -
There were women in short skirts and high heels, their bouffant hairdos as steady as carved stones.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
17
4.8
A women's high shoe with a very thin heel
6
2.7
A woman's shoe that raises the back of the foot high
4
2.7
A shoe with a high heel that makes the heel higher than the toes
4
4.4
A very thin, high part under women's shoes that ends in a small point
3
5.0
A very high, thin part at the back of a woman's shoe that ends in a small point
A fairly high, narrow part at the back of a shoe that curves inward
Antonyms
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'women's shoes with tall or raised heels' is directly and compositionally derived from 'high' (tall, elevated) modifying 'heel' (the shoe component at the rear of the foot), so the phrase transparently refers to shoes with elevated heels. This adjective + noun pattern is common and cross-linguistically predictable, making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The noun high heels may come from old riding shoes that had a raised heel to keep the foot from slipping when riding a horse, and later people made the heels taller to make the wearer 'look taller' and fashionable. That's why high heels means shoes with a tall heel that lift the heel higher than the toes.