waist-high
6
3.7
- adverb
:
hasta la cintura
- His voice calls from waist-high grass, and we duck behind gray sandbags.
- waist-high grass
- waist-high water
- waist-high wall
Examples
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The children splashed joyfully in the waist-high water at the beach.
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Side by side, Hanover and Pantucci quickly slog their way through waist-high water.
Fiction book (1998) -
And there were these little horses, you know, only waist high at the shoulder?
Fiction book (1993) -
For God's sake, the water's only waist high.
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Again, he heard it coming from behind a row of waist-high corn.
Fiction book (1999) -
The ABC factory in England was displayed in a waist-high case in the center of the room.
Academic text (1996) -
Thirty meters of waist-high grass separated them from the edge of the lake.
Fiction book (1992) -
George floats on a wave into view and stands in waist-high water, only to be knocked way back down.
Fiction book (2001) -
Trekking was becoming increasingly difficult since the greenery was waist high and the ground was wet and muddy.
Academic text (2009) -
And so for most of the afternoon, crouched among waist-high bushes, we picked berries, picking the biggest, juiciest ones.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
5
2.9
Up to someone's waist in water or snow
1
2.8
Clothing that reaches only to the waist
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word waist-high is made of the simple words waist ('middle of the body') and high ('up to a level'), so it means 'reaching the waist'. That's why we say water, snow, or grass is waist-high when it comes up to your middle.