high-lows

You know, this whole idea of "high-lows," not a new idea, Kiran.

CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2008 2008

I also find the Master Cleanse harsh on my system, causing a lot of high-lows and evacuation discomfort.

Third World Juice Cleansing 2008

The boots were not the high-lows at present in vogue, which an unobservant man may be allowed to disregard up to a certain point.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

George had a pair of thick high-lows, and his old shirt was torn about the breast, and ragged at the collar, where his blue beard had worn it.

The History of Pendennis 2006

He wore a cap and a brown jockey coat, trowsers, leggings and high-lows, and sported a single spur.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

On entering the house I was greeted in English by Mr Hugh Pritchard himself, a tall bulky man with a weather-beaten countenance, dressed in a brown jerkin and corduroy trowsers, with a broad low-crowned buff-coloured hat on his head, and what might he called half shoes and half high-lows on his feet.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

Going out I saw the Italian lacing up his high-lows against a step.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

A dirty pepper and salt coat, a waistcoat which had once been red, but which had lost its pristine colour, and looked brown; dirty yellow leather breeches, grey worsted stockings, and high-lows.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

Here they washup him, or else knuckle under to him, like a skeery Coster's missus when her old man's on the mawl, and feels round arter her ribs with his bloomin 'high-lows.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891 Various

You see that they fit him, that they are of the best material and make, and suitable to the season: you never see him sport the Sunday patent-leathers of the "snob," who on week-a-days proceeds on eight-and-sixpenny high-lows: you never see him shambling along in boots a world too wide, nor hobbling about a crippled victim to the malevolence of Crispin.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various