Usually means: Firmly, closely fixed or stretched.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. tight: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tight, tight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tight: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tight: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tight, tight: Wordnik
  7. tight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tight: Wiktionary
  9. -tight, tight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. -tight, tight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tight: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tight: Dictionary.com
  13. tight: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tight (INXS song), Tight (Mindless Self Indulgence album), Tight (song), Tight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tight: Rhymezone
  19. tight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. TIGHT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Tight: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. tight: Free Dictionary
  24. tight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. tight: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. tight: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Tight: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. tight: Legal dictionary
  4. Tight: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tight: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tight: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tight: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. tight, tight, tight, tight: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tight: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. tight: The Folk File
  6. the tight: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tight: Dan's Poker
  2. Tight: Gambling Glossary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
adjective:  Unyielding or firm.
adjective:  Under high tension; taut.
adjective:  (colloquial) Scarce, hard to come by.
adjective:  (colloquial, figurative) Intimately friendly.
adjective:  (slang, figurative, usually derogatory) Miserly or frugal.
adjective:  (of a space, design or arrangement) Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
adjective:  Fitting close, or too close, to the body.
adjective:  Of a turn, sharp, so that the timeframe for making it is narrow and following it is difficult.
adjective:  Lacking holes; difficult to penetrate; waterproof.
adjective:  Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
adjective:  (sports) Not conceding many goals.
adjective:  (slang) Intoxicated; drunk.
adjective:  (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
adjective:  (slang, British, regional) Mean; unfair; unkind.
adjective:  (of time) Limited or restricted.
adjective:  (obsolete) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
adjective:  (obsolete) Handy; adroit; brisk.
adjective:  (poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands.
adjective:  (poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
adjective:  (informal, of persons) Intimate, close, close-knit.
adjective:  (US, slang, motor racing) With understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars.
adjective:  (New York, slang) Angry or irritated.
adjective:  (slang, vulgar) Of either the anus or a vagina of a woman, still intact due to virginity or not engaging in sexual intercourse often.
adjective:  (slang, vulgar) Of a person, especially a woman, having a tight vagina or other orifice.
adverb:  Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
adverb:  Soundly.
verb:  (obsolete) To make tight; tighten.
verb:  (obsolete, of a vessel) To make water-tight.

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