tightner

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noun

A meal, particularly a large one.

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Meanings

nountightner (plural tightners)

plural tightners

  1. slangA meal, particularly a large one.

    Master Whelkey will answer perhaps, "But kool the esilop (look at the police), kool him (look at him). Curly: Nommus (be off), I am going to do the tightner" (have my dinner).

    1857, James Ewing Ritchie, “The Costermongers' Free-And-Easy”, in The Night Side of London, page 193

Origin

Alternative spelling of tightener.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

tightner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tightner

MLA

“tightner.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tightner. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tightner,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tightner.

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