Crossword-Solution: TIGHT 5 letters, 140 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Tight	-	of Tie
Tight	-	p. p. of Tie.
Tight	superl.	Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open; as, tight cloth; a tight knot.
Tight	superl.	Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water-tight; air-tight.
Tight	superl.	Fitting close, or too close, to the body; as, a tight coat or other garment.
Tight	superl.	Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
Tight	superl.	Close; parsimonious; saving; as, a man tight in his dealings.
Tight	superl.	Not slack or loose; firmly stretched; taut; -- applied to a rope, chain, or the like, extended or stretched out.
Tight	superl.	Handy; adroit; brisk.
Tight	superl.	Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy.
Tight	superl.	Pressing; stringent; not easy; firmly held; dear; -- said of money or the money market. Cf. Easy, 7.
Tight	v. t.	To tighten.

We have 140 clues for the answer “TIGHT”

Clue	Answers
"Hella dope, bro"	1 answer
"Sick," in slang	1 answer
A size too small	1 answer
Affected by drink	1 answer
Beyond merely snug	1 answer
Close, as a race	1 answer
Close: Colloq.	1 answer
Closely constrained	1 answer
Evenly contested	1 answer
Firmly fastened; drunk	1 answer
Hard to move; drunk	1 answer
In need of altering, perhaps	1 answer
Intimate, as friends	1 answer
Kind of wad	1 answer
Like BFFs	1 answer
Like Swiss bank security	1 answer
Like a skinflint	1 answer
Like an inflated blood pressure cuff	1 answer
Like jeggings	1 answer
Like security at Swiss banks	1 answer
Like some schedules	1 answer
Mean to get drunk	1 answer
Nearly even, as a race	1 answer
Overly frugal	1 answer
Really close	1 answer
Really in sync, as a band	1 answer
Reluctant to part with a buck	1 answer
Scanty, as money	1 answer
Scarce in relation to demand.	1 answer
Snug, as jeans	1 answer
Tied snugly	1 answer
Too small to be comfy	1 answer
Too small, as clothing	1 answer
Too small, as pants	1 answer
Too small, clothing-wise	1 answer
Too small, possibly	1 answer
Too snug	1 answer
Tour bus conditions	1 answer
Two sizes too small	1 answer
Very snug	1 answer
Without room to spare	1 answer
Word for some budgets	1 answer
snug Too	1 answer
Fisted or lipped	1 answer
"Cool, cool"	2 answers
___ as a drum.	2 answers
Very friendly (with)	2 answers
Like best buds	2 answers
Like good friends	2 answers
Like hospital corners	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

REEAT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with TIGHT (5)

And before I put you to bed I have just time to finish the story of Cinderella.” In they went; I don’t know how there was room for them, but you can squeeze very tight in the Neverland.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

She wears her yellow hair in a high pompadour, and is bedecked with rings and chains and “beauty pins.” Her tight, high-heeled shoes give her an awkward walk, and she is always more or less preoccupied with her clothes.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Inflation remains low at 3.1% despite higher oil prices and rising wages because of a tight labor market.

The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

The idea of such a slight wind catching it.” The cow standing erect was of the Devon breed, and was encased in a tight warm hide of rich Indian red, as absolutely uniform from eyes to tail as if the animal had been dipped in a dye of that colour, her long back being mathematically level.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Crackers tend to gather in small, tight-knit, very secretive groups that have little overlap with the huge, open poly-culture this lexicon describes; though crackers often like to describe *themselves* as hackers, most true hackers consider them a separate and lower form of life.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Quotes with TIGHT (3)

Wow. I didn’t think it was possible for him to look any more intoxicating than he already did. But a leather clad Ren standing next to the gorgeous racing motorcycle holding his helmet made my brain go numb. I had kind of a this-is-your-brain-on-drugs moment, only mine was more like a this-is-your-brain-on-seeing-Ren-in-tight-leather moment. If they’d been smart, the Ducati Company should have used him in a commercial and given him the bike for free.

Colleen Houck

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don’t, you will leak away…

Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love

His gut was stitched up good and tight, but that didn’t prevent it from flopping. He wiped his damp palms on the legs of his jeans and stood up shakily, leaning heavily on his cane. He called himself a masochist for putting himself through this torture day after day. He braced himself for the disappointment of having to go home alone. He braced himself for happiness like he’d never known in his entire life. He watched the door they would come through.

Sandra Brown Lethal

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 103 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).