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tight
adjective- tipsy; drunk US, 1830
- He was too busy to bother with kids who were half tight. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 79, 1947
- And if you get tight, I’ll take you home — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 101, 1949
- It happened, and it was not at all what the group or even Mother would have imagined, not a bit sordid or messy, in spite of Dick’s being tight. — Mary McCarthy, The Group, p. 31, 1963
- lacking generosity, mean UK
- There had been allegations that these geezers had been drugged. I told them that everyone here was so fucking tight that if we spiked anyone we told them later and charged them. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 13, 2000
- aggressive; cruel; unpleasant UK
From the previous sense as “mean”, punning on “mean” as “cruel”. - DAVE: (EATING SLOWLY) Hmm, lovely chocolate... hmmm, honeycomb centre. DENISE: Ah, don’t be tight, Dave. DAVE: (OVERACTING) Hmmm, it’s the best chocolate bar I’ve had... ever. — Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, The Royle Family, 1999
- You didn’t have to shame me like that man. Not in front of all them pricks. That was fuckin’ tight man! — Jack Allen, When the Whistle Blows, p. 113, 2000
- “Ah leave him, ay!” goes one of the girls. “Don’t be tight.” I turns to her. “Don’t you think it’s tight terrorising old ladies? Ay?” — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 244, 2001
- hard; severe; difficult UK, 1764
- I remember you were always pulling them out of tight spots. Didn’t any of them offer to help you?" — Stan Redding and Frank W. Abagnale, Catch Me If You Can, p. 19, 2000
- of a slot machine, disadvantageous to the gambler in terms of the frequency of payouts US
- — J. Edward Allen, The Basics of Winning Slots, p. 59, 1984
- used of a hard bargain US, 1828
- McDermott was very pleased with himself to think he’d made such a tight bargain. But I could see by the twinkle in Jeremiah’s eye that he was only pretending to let McDermott get the better of him[.] — Margaret Attwood, Alias Grace, p. 269, 1996
- of money; hard to come by; in short circulation UK, 1846
- Money was tight and the board was struggling with ways to use their limited resouces the most frugally. — John Mutz and Katherine Murray, Fundraising for Dummies, p. 24, 2000
- used of a player in poker extremely conservative in play and betting US
- — Anthony Holden, Big Deal, p. 306, 1990
- of a contest, close, evenly matched US, 1848
- If it’s a tight game, he stays with the action. — Tim McCarver and Danny Peary, Tim McCarver’s Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans, p. 18, 1999
- friendly US, 1956
- I’m not tight with her. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 111, 1958
- I didn’t get tight with anybody in the reception center. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 135, 1965
- Mom and me were pretty tight. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 116, 1973
- He was tight with Earl Bassey. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 20, 1975
- There’s a lonely Hindu works at the 7-H across the street. Get in tight with him. — Chasing Amy, 1997
- Poitras and I are tight. — Robert Crais, L.A. Requiem, p. 38, 1999
- good; fashionable; in style US
- — Columbia Missourian, p. 1A, 19 October 1998
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