"Trump-tight"

[Wilson Gray]

It's just Ockam's Razor, Jon. I doubt that there are many colored folk
who are down with The Donald. ;-)

-Wilson


On 1/27/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> You mean it doesn't refer to Donald Trump's haircut, once described by TV Guide as a "mystical, gravity-defying coif " ?
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>   Well, I guess that would be a stretch....
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>   JL
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> Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> From the site, Slang of the Week:
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> "Trump-Tight- (adj.)- Super tight, crazy tight, really fucking cool.
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> "Origin- No idea. I heard Snoop say it on Doggystyle.
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> "Use: 'Dude, I just got the new Jay-Z record and that shit is
> trump-tight! He's not overrated at all, bro!'"
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> Probable origin
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> 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.
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> "Trump-tight" is, to quote The Clovers, "a real fine way to be!"
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> -Wilson Gray
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