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A word that left its hinges, hit the gym, started its own band, and never came back.
means Snugly fitted, firmly secured, or — in slang — excellent, close-knit, stingy, or thoroughly drunk.
from From Middle English thight, meaning dense or watertight, borrowed from Old Norse thettr; the slang flowering came centuries later.
Money senseTight-fisted dates to the 1840s.
Drunk senseTight meaning intoxicated appeared by the 1830s.
Praise senseTight as cool surged through hip-hop slang.
Watertight rootOriginal meaning was sealed against leaks.