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HUG-ME-TIGHT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hug-me-tight mean?
• HUG-ME-TIGHT (noun)
The noun HUG-ME-TIGHT has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: HUG-ME-TIGHT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A woman's fitted jacket
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("hug-me-tight" is a kind of...):
jacket (a short coat)
Context examples
John never asked to see it, but she always insisted on his doing so, and used to enjoy his masculine amazement at the queer things women wanted, and made him guess what piping was, demand fiercely the meaning of a hug-me-tight, or wonder how a little thing composed of three rosebuds, a bit of velvet, and a pair of strings, could possibly be a bonnet, and cost six dollars.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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