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Tight

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Tight may refer to:

General

Clothing

  • Skin-tight garment, a garment that is held to the skin by elastic tension
  • Tights, a type of leg coverings fabric extending from the waist to feet
  • Tightlacing, the practice of wearing a tightly-laced corset
  • Tighty-whiteys, a derogatory colloquialism for men's or boys' classic-style briefs

Mathematics

  • Tight frame, a mathematical term defining the bounding conditions of a vector space
  • Tightness of measures, a concept in measure (and probability) theory

Science and technology

  • Tight gas, natural gas which is difficult to access
  • Tight oil, shale oil which is difficult to access
  • American car racing term for when the car is understeering

Music

  • Tight (Mindless Self Indulgence album), 1999
  • Tight (Hank Crawford album), 1996
  • "Tight" (song), a song by INXS
  • "Tight", a song by The Coup from their 2001 album Party Music

Slang

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