Down At Heel

Word DOWN AT HEEL
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What do we mean by down at heel?

Worn out from long use or neglect; dilapidated. adjective

Shabbily dressed because of poverty; seedy. adjective

Attributive form of down at heel. adjective

(of footwear, hyphenated when used attributively) In poor condition, especially due to having worn heels; worn-out, shabby.

(by extension, hyphenated when used attributively) Shabbily dressed, slovenly; impoverished; shabby, dilapidated.

Down heels are shoes that you use when you want to get down. And when you're done descending, switch your down heels to your regular shoes. (E.g. Cybertruck shoes) Urban Dictionary

Adjective that describes someone or something eroded, impoverished or poor. It comes from old shoes having worn down heels, and people having to wear them due to lack of money for new ones. Urban Dictionary

Self explanatory, a unnaturally high heel designed for optimal leg angulation. Typically a stiletto. Urban Dictionary

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The word "down-at-heel" in example sentences

In Owton Manor, a down-at-heel suburb in the south-west of the town, things are even worse. ❋ Unknown (2012)

When the Turner Contemporary gallery turnercontemporary.org opens in Margate on 16 April, it's set to do almost as much for the down-at-heel seaside resort as Tracey Emin has. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Puppets mingle with live performers – P&J are now two down-at-heel vaudevillians – as creativity is put in the dock and the show goes to Hell crocodiles and sausages still included. ❋ Unknown (2012)

They make 20m units a year from their factory in Piaseczno, a down-at-heel town 12 miles south of Warsaw, which they export to 27 countries. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. Wyld nightclub in the W London Hotel The Starwood Hotels-managed W hotel www.wlondon.co.uk opened Monday in the center of Leicester Square, and will be followed in late March by St. John Hotel, heralding change for this part of London, which comprises Soho and the down-at-heel area of Chinatown. ❋ Jemima Sissons (2011)

From there I'd suggest heading to Ueno, a slightly down-at-heel area, built around a park, that still has a faintly rural feel and reminds you of what Tokyo used to be when its Meiji refashioners, in the late 19th century, took their cues from London and Paris. ❋ Pico Iyer (2010)

Small, roll-up curtains reveal four colorful rooms behind the facade, one each for the preening stepsisters Clorinda and Tisbe downstairs, and two upstairs for their harrumphing father Don Magnifico, the down-at-heel Baron of Montefiascone, while sweet and sprightly Angelina gets the cinders and the scullery in the middle. ❋ Judy Fayard (2011)

Unsurprisingly, the likes of Mike Skinner feel a kinship with GP's down-at-heel rhyming – however dark the work can be, there's a feeling of a torch being passed. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Alas, Arsenal's "Boy" hero ended up deaf and disillusioned and running a down-at-heel cafe in the capital's dreary Neasden. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Suspicion soon alighted on a young, down-at-heel German-born tailor called Franz Muller, and Mr Briggs' Hat is a compelling read because innocent explanations are gradually posited for the following, apparently damning facts: that Muller was found in possession of Briggs's watch and possibly his hat; that the hat left in the carriage was also traced to him; that he sailed to America just days after the killing. ❋ Unknown (2011)

First class is the last remnant of the more romantic days of air travel when BA's predecessor, British Overseas Airways Corporation, offered first class tickets alongside the more down-at-heel tourist or economy cabins. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A hundred or so metres from the front door is full-on Camberwell with its vibrant, sometimes brutal, down-at-heel street scene. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Back when I was young, it was a really down-at-heel place, with hassle and trouble wherever you went, but now it's really pulled itself up by its bootstraps. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Lebedev celebrated his 49th birthday in the down-at-heel offices of Novaya Gazeta, the liberal Moscow newspaper he part owns with Mikhail Gorbachev. ❋ Mark Tran (2010)

It helped too to have a cast stuffed with big-name stars and acclaimed character actors, including Dustin Hoffman as fresh-out-of-jail gangster Chester "Ace" Bernstein, Dennis Farina as his right-hand man, Nick Nolte as a down-at-heel trainer, and Michael Gambon as Bernstein's old foe. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Why Once Scotland's most popular seaside town, Rothesay, on this island 15 miles long by four wide and two hours' drive from Glasgow, is now full of down-at-heel charm. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"Good People" is, or purports to be, a study of life in Southie, a down-at-heel Boston neighborhood beloved of movie stars who think they can do the local accent. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)

When he won the first of his two world titles in 1972, the venue for the final, a now demolished British Legion function room in a Birmingham suburb, symbolised snooker's status as a down-at-heel folk sport. ❋ Unknown (2010)

First things first, though: before booking their holiday the women head down to the bar at their down-at-heel airport hotel for the first of the weekend's many dauntingly heavy drinking sessions. ❋ Thomas Jones (2010)

A postal worker's son raised on a tough estate in a down-at-heel neighbourhood of Brooklyn, the boss of Goldman Sachs has traded his way from a scrappy job as a gold dealer to the top of Wall Street's most powerful bank. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Penisman]: I want to [get down] but I don't have [down heels] Man2: ok ❋ Nigahh (2020)

..the [houses] are much [smaller] and [already] down at the heels. ❋ Pesadilladegato (2007)

"Damn, [she can] [hardly] [walk]. but doesn't she look hot in those knock me down and fuck me heels." ❋ Camilla W. Bush (2007)

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