highlowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

high +‎ low

名詞

highlow ‎(複数形 highlows)

1. An article of men's footwear, typically made of leather, lower in height than a boot, rising just above the ankle, with laces in the front.
   • 1954, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, edited by Arthur Pendennis Esq., Chapter 6, Paragraph 5:

     He looks very odd, Clive thinks, very odd and very kind, and he looks like a gentleman, every inch of him:--not like Martin's father, who came to see his son lately in highlows, and a shocking bad hat, and actually flung coppers amongst the boys for a scramble.

形容詞

high-low (not comparable)

1. (poker) Describing a game in which the high hand and the low hand win.

   Alternative form: high/low

2. (gambling) Designating a blackjack card counting technique in which the lowest cards are worth +1 point and the highest cards -1 point, and the counter places higher bets against higher point totals.

名詞

high-low (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 high-lows)

1. (fashion) Alternative form of highlow (“type of shoe”)
2. (uncountable, card games) A card game where a player has to guess if the next card will be higher or lower than the one shown.