TIGHTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tights mean? 

• TIGHTS (noun)
  The noun TIGHTS has 1 sense:

1. skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls

  Familiarity information: TIGHTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIGHTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

leotards; tights

Hypernyms ("tights" is a kind of...):

hose; hosiery (socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear))

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tights"):

maillot (tights for dancers or gymnasts)

pantyhose (a woman's tights consisting of underpants and stockings)

 Context examples 

“Who's our friend in the tights?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had relinquished his legal suit of black for the purposes of this excursion, and wore the old surtout and tights, but not quite with the old air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Traddles accordingly did so, over the banister; and Mr. Micawber, not a bit changed—his tights, his stick, his shirt-collar, and his eye-glass, all the same as ever—came into the room with a genteel and youthful air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I went in, and found there a stoutish, middle-aged person, in a brown surtout and black tights and shoes, with no more hair upon his head (which was a large one, and very shining) than there is upon an egg, and with a very extensive face, which he turned full upon me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)