slang question

Post by **Lunkhead** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:56 pm

Has anybody else heard of the word "tight" used in place of "drunk"? As in, "We got real tight last night at the bar." Or is it just me?

jack · Post by **jack** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:59 pm

was this bar in the castro by any chance?

Mogosagatai · Post by **Mogosagatai** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:04 am

That makes a very slight amount of sense if it refers to a group of people getting drunk together (since "tight" already means something along the lines of "close friends"). But for just an individual, I'd use "loose" over "tight" if I had to choose. "We got tight last night," but "I got loose last night."

Is it just me, or does this whole thread have dirty little undertones?

bz£ · Post by **bz£** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:07 am

tight=drunk
blind=even drunker

The only place I've seen those usages is in Hemingway, pretty sure it was The Sun Also Rises. Read into that what you will!

j$ · Post by j$ » Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:40 am

http://www.answers.com/topic/tight

no.16

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:25 am

To me "tight" means somebody who is disinclined to make financial transactions
- eg. "He is so tight he wouldn't shout if a shark bit him" (ie. 'it is unlikely that that gentleman will buy me a beer')

It is also traditional here for cinemas to have half price tickets on some week-nights - nights which are now generally known as "Tight-Arse Tuesday"

Tight doesn't mean drunk. Pissed means drunk. But to Americans it seems that pissed means angry. I can be pissed and happy. But not if the bloke I'm drinking with is tight. That could lead to a blue.

bz£ · Post by **bz£** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:18 am

blue wrote:songfight is an english language site.

thank you.

Justincombustion · Post by **Justincombustion** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:22 am

Quite the opposite, if you're feeling "tight" you have a few drinks to get "loose." Of course I live in a place where we call it "pop."

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:57 am

I've heard tight used is so many abstract ways I cant' even tell what it's supposed to mean, so I'm gonna try and use it this way tonight... let's get tight!

man...that really does sound kinda dirty though... maybe I'll stick to "hammered, wasted, tanked, blasted, wrecked". Who knows.

ken · Post by **ken** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:40 am

I always thought "tight" in slang meant "good". I usually hear it as, "that show last night was tight" or "your new car is tight".

Ken

mico saudad · Post by **mico saudad** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:14 am

Yeah I have to agree that tight isn't the best word for getting drunk. There's nothing tight about it. Sloshed, pissed, wasted, f**ed up,.. these are all slang that convey what it is to be drunk.

Tight. The timing of a band, the fitting of machine parts, the closeness of friends, the tone of someone's ass. Sexy heir to the slang 'solid'. This word is not something to describe drunkeness and anyone who says otherwise is tight (In reference to the fitting of the hat on their head as it relates to the constriction of blood vessels that normal supply adequate oxygen for reasoned thought).

Post by **Lunkhead** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:35 pm

Thanks for the link, j$. At least I know it isn't just me and my friend Ernie Hemingway. Erin and I were talking about my entry for the "Hold My Calls" fight and she said she didn't understand the lyric, "Let's go out tonight, get a little tight". I have no idea where I picked that bit of slang up but I guess it's not as common as I thought.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:54 pm

Heard tight as drunk, yeah. Think it's of the same vintage (groan...) as "high" for drunk. But that was from way back when gay was happy and not used by rednecks with three teeth as a legless insult.

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