From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishankle socks/bootsankle socks/bootsDCCsocks or boots that only come up to your ankle → ankle
Examples from the Corpus
ankle socks/boots• She was dressed casually in a pair of faded Levi jeans, brown ankle boots and a baggy white T-shirt.• Her ankle boots she had picked up in an army surplus store, and were the most comfortable she had ever possessed.• The boys, meanwhile, were yanking on elastic-sided ankle boots; very hip, very Beatles.• Snakeskin zip-up ankle boots with open toe and heel, $ 134. 95.• Scottie is mainly black, with a white chest and white ankle socks on black legs.• She was wearing Ray-Bans, a pale blue sunsuit, and white ankle socks under ivory-colored high-heeled espadrilles. 