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Definition: Hold Tight |
Hold TightVerb1. Hold firmly, usually with one's hands; "She clutched my arm when she got scared". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Hold TightSynonyms: cling to (v), clutch (v), hold close (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Retention | Verb: retain, keep; hold fast one's own, hold tight one's own, hold fast one's ground, hold tight one's ground; clinch, clench, clutch, grasp, gripe, hug, have a firm hold of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hold tight a little longerlonger with Big Red (Get Over It; writing credit: R. Lee Fleming Jr.) Alright you son-of-a-bitch, you just hold tight. Up against the wall, you mother (The Omega Man; writing credit: Richard Matheson; John William Corrington) | |
Lyrics | It’s alright, take a seat, hold tight ("Addictive Love"; performing artist: BeBe& CeCe Winans) Hold tight We're in for nasty weather (Burning Down The House; performing artist: Talking Heads) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hold Tight (1925) | |
Song Titles | Hold Tight (Sea Food) (performing artist: The Andrews Sisters) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
amy bloom hold tight | 3 |
dream hold tight | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hold tight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | držte se pevnì. (various references) | |
French | préhension, maintenir (hold firm), ballot. (various references) | |
German | festhalten (adherence, capture, cling, conventionalism, detain, emphasize, held, hold, hold down, hold on, hold on to, holding, intern, keep hold of, record, retain, to hold down, to hold tight, to retain). (various references) | |
Hungarian | erősen tart (to hold fast, to hold firm, to hold tight), erősen fog (have a strong grip, to bite hard, to hold fast, to hold firm, to hold tight). (various references) | |
Italian | impaccare (grasp, grip, pack, seize). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oldhay ighttay.(various references) | |
Romanian | nu te lasã (steady), ţine-te bine (keep your pecker up). (various references) | |
Spanish | agarrar (catch, catch hold of, clench, clutch, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, griping, hold, lay hold of, lift, nail, pack, pinch, seize, snatch up, tackle, take, take on, touch). (various references) | |
Turkish | sıkmak (ail, bore, bother, Chevy, chivvy, chivy, clench, constipate, constrict, crush, cumber, depress, distress, extrude, give the willies, grip, harass, hatchel, incommode, irk, jam, load, make fast, mope, oppress, pinch, press, pressurize, pull on, ream, ream out, squeeze, straiten, strangulate, tighten), sıkı tutmak (clinch, get a grip, keep hold of, wire away, wire in). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-h-h-i-l-o-t-t" | |
-3 letters: diglot. | |
-4 letters: dhoti, dight, ditto, hight, light, litho, thigh, thiol, tight, tilth. | |
-5 letters: diol, doit, dolt, doth, gild, gilt, gold, high, hilt, hold, holt, idol, lido, loth, loti, thio, tilt, toil, toit, told. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-h-h-i-l-o-t-t" | |
+4 letters: trothplighted. | |
+5 letters: shortsightedly. | |
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