"Trump-tight"

[Douglas G. Wilson]

> From the site, Slang of the Week:
>
>"Trump-Tight- (adj.)- Super tight, crazy tight, really fucking cool.
>
>"Origin- No idea. I heard Snoop say it on Doggystyle.
>
>"Use: 'Dude, I just got the new Jay-Z record and that shit is
>trump-tight! He's not overrated at all, bro!'"
>
>
>Probable origin
>
>In the card game of bid whist - the social card game of choice in
>Afrite America - when a player has a hand that consists entirely of
>trumps, he/she is said to be "trump-tight." The person who is
>trump-tight turns the rest of the tricks (I know, but since people
>learn to play whist long before they learn to play the game, the pun
>is tradionally ignored) and thereby wins the deal and, under the right
>circumstances, also wins the game. In fact, the player may even "pull
>a Boston," the bid-whist equivalent of a bridge grand slam, or he/she
>may at least "pull a young Boston," the equivalent of a small slam, as
>a consequence of being trump-tight.
>
>"Trump-tight" is, to quote The Clovers, "a real fine way to be!"

"Trump-tight" is used in bridge too, I think.

And then there's that song which goes "everything is all right,
trump-tight, out of sight" ... or something like that ....

-- Doug Wilson

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