high and tight noun a man’s haircut in which the sides of the head are shaved and a quarter-inch of hair is left on top US A military term for a military haircut.
— Hans Halberstadt, Airborne, p. 130, 1988: “Abridged dictionary of airborne terms”
After that, they’d been checked into a recruit barracks, issued uni-forms, and herded through a thirty-second haircut that left each recruit “high and tight.” — Ian Douglas, LunaMarine, p. 127, 1990