Tight = drunk

[Alice Faber]

Your Name wrote:
> A friend in Texas says she has never heard "tight" used as a euphemism for
> "drunk."  Here in upstate NY it's quite common.  Is the expression  really that
> regional?
>
> Rosemarie
>
> The people who are late are often so much  jollier than the people who have
> to wait for them.  -  E.V.  Lucas
>
>

I grew up in the part of NY State that some people call upstate and
others don't. For me, in the 60s and 70s, "tight" meant "tipsy" (but not
outright inebriated).

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