high-heel meaning: definition, quotations

high-heel

adj

Of footwear Having high heels.

Routine dress for Tuesday will be bra and panties with high-heel satin mules.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 29:

verb

To walk in high heels.

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.1932, Science News - Volumes 21-22, page 178:
Rosemary, brown bosom, flaming dress, flashing ring, high-heeled vigorously over Crabbe's large drawing-room as the sun set setting out nuts and pretzels, perking up nodding flowers.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 482:

2 more examples

Thankfully, Dominic was passing the front door as she high-heeled her way out.2004, Kate Thompson, A Perfect Life, page 74:
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.2008, Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does it Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America: