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Definition of knee-high adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

knee-high

adjective
 
/ˌniː ˈhaɪ/
 
/ˌniː ˈhaɪ/
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  1. high enough to reach your knees
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryKnee-high is used with these nouns:
    • sock
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Idioms
knee-high to a grasshopper
  1. (informal, humorous) very small; very young
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