waist-high
Speech parts
1. waist-high - Adjective
2. waist-high - Adverb
Meaning
up to the waist
Source: WordNetSynonyms
Examples
the water rose waist-high
As Nimue, Katherine sword fights in waist-high water while defeating several soldiers, sleeps on the floor and has a tooth pulled out.
But otherwise the scene in Philadelphia was less confrontational – festive, even – where pro-Trump and pro-Biden demonstrators were separated by waist-high portable barriers under a strong police presence.
The horse chariot was a fast, light, open, two-wheeled conveyance drawn by two or more horses that were hitched side by side, and was little more than a floor with a waist-high guard at the front and sides.
By the end of the Powerplay, England were 107 for 0, Bairstow on 75 off 35. But the wicket of Jason Roy, nudging a waist-high catch tamely back to left-arm spinner Watt in the 13th, broke England's rhythm.
Four players tussled for the ball which bounced away to the side, around the penalty spot, where Sandy MacKenzie reacted first and fired a waist-high shot to keeper Norman Campbell’s right, into the net.