Tight = drunk

[Sarah Lang]

Old actuall, even for Hemingway, but he liked it:

Jake and his fellow expatriates spend the entire novel getting drunk,
being drunk, or recovering from having been drunk (or `tight' as they
like to say).

“I was just a little tight.” “Tight!” Brett exclaimed. “You were blind!

S.

On May 1, 2007, at 12:45 AM, Your Name wrote:

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> A friend in Texas says she has never heard "tight" used as a
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> Rosemarie
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