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uptight
adjective- nervous, anxious US, 1934
- — J. L. Simmons and Barry Winograd, It’s Happening, p. 174, 1966: “glossary”
- There were a few straights but they looked very uptight and out of place. — Berkeley Barb, p. 1, 20 January 1967
- Youngblood don’t be so uptight, man. I ain’t after your girl, man. — Cecil Brown, The Life & Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, p. 145, 1969
- Same old American story: except this time the cop was dead and the white folks got real uptight about THAT. — The Black Panther, p. 7, 25 January 1969
- What he didn’t understand, of course, is that the very thing that made him angry at the sight of cops is the same thing that puts kids uptight seeing them on campus. — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 150, 1970
- [S]omebody must be pretty fucking uptight. — Richard Neville, Play Power, p. 189, 1970
- Then we came upon a crowd of people ahead of us being chased by police, who were obviously very uptight. — Malcolm Boyd, My Fellow Americans, p. 28, 1970
- You’re just uptight about tomorrow. — Francesca Lia Block, Cherokee Bat, p. 232, 1992
- inhibited; narrow-minded; very correct and straightlaced US
- Dig what you’re doing! Make war on paranoia. Don’t be afraid. Don’t get uptight. — Abbie Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It, p. 28, 1968
- When you were a child, did you think of your family as up tight and plastic? — Leonard Wolfe (Editor), Voices from the Love Generation, p. 216, 1968
- Elvis Presley ripped off Ike Eisenhower by turning our uptight young awakening bodies around. — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 18, 1970
- “You have no reason to get uptight.” “I’m not uptight. I’m not, really.” — Doug Lang, Freaks, p. 106, 1973
- Don’t be so uptight. Give it a chance. — King of Comedy, 1976
- Wait, wait, don’t get up tight. — Apocalypse Now, 1979
- You were just so up tight. Now you’re much softer. — When Harry Met Sally, 1989
- No, man, what we swingers were rebelling against were uptight squares like you. — Austin Powers, 1997
- Uptight, straight-arsed divs like you. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 33, 2000
- addicted to a drug US
- I was a stinkin’ no-good junkie, twisted out of my mind. Up tight. Bound by dope. A chronic addict. — John Gimenez, Up Tight!, p. 17, 1967
- excellent US, 1962
- They admit that James Brown is out-of-sight, up-tight, all right, so groovy, and is probably the most exciting in-person performer. — Murray Kaufman, Murray the K Tells It Like It Is, Baby, p. 83, 1966
- close, friendly US
- In toward the center are those persons he knows and likes best, those with whom he is “up tight”; his “walking buddies[.]” — Elliot Liebow, Tally’s Corner, p. 163, 1967
- “I mean I’m not up tight with him, no one is.” — John Williams, The Man Who Cried I Am, p. 27, 1967
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