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Well-heeled

adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Rich, affluent, prosperous. colloquial

    "On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon."

Adjective
  1. 1
    in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich wordnet

Etymology

Originally American English, from a literal use in cockfighting: a well-heeled cock was provided with sharp spurs and could inflict maximum damage. From this developed the American frontier slang sense of being well-equipped, and thence the modern sense of being well supplied with money.

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