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Skintight

Definition: Skintight

Skintight

Adjective

1. So tight as to cling to the skin; "skintight jeans".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "skintight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references)

 

Crosswords: Skintight

English words defined with "skintight": leotardstights. (references)
Specialty definitions using "skintight": partial pressure suit. (references)

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Modern Usage: Skintight

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Skintight (1981)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Skintight

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Skintight

"Skintight" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Skintight" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%12101,599

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Skintight

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

skintight

277

girl show skintight

4

fashions skintight

175

517 levi skintight

3

skintight jean

19

revue skintight

3

skintight las vegas

15

dancer skintight

3

harrahs skintight

14

pic skintight

3

review skintight

10

latex skintight

3

girl skintight

9

alix skintight

3

skintight vegas

9

cast skintight

3

camel skintight toe

6

biologic skintight solution

3

skintight show

5

shorts skintight

2

photo skintight

4

fetish leather skintight

2

skintight las vegas show

4

gallery jean skintight

2

leather skintight

4

girl show skintight vegas

2

picture skintight

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Skintight

Language Translations for "skintight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i ngjitur pas trupi. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ضيق جدا (skimp). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съвсем опънат, много тесен (hairbreadth). (various references)

   

Czech

  

přiléhavý (close fitting, tight). (various references)

   

French

  

collant, ajusté. (various references)

   

German

  

hauteng (skin tight, skinny). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

צמו" ל'וף. (various references)

   

Manx

  

chionn rish y chrackan. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

intightskay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

в обтяжку, облегающий (close), плотно облегающий. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pripijeno, pripijen, priljubljen (osculant). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

muy ceñido. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

åtsittande (snug, tight). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

vücuda oturan (slinky), daracık (slinky, snug, tight fit, very narrow), çok dar. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

в обтяжку. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Skintight

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-h-i-i-k-n-s-t-t"

-1 letter: tithings.

-2 letters: histing, hitting, insight, kithing, kitting, knights, sitting, skiting, tithing.

-3 letters: gittin, hiking, kiting, knight, nights, siting, skiing, things, thinks, tights, tsking.

-4 letters: ginks, hints, intis, kings, kiths, knish, knits, nighs, night, shtik, sight, skint, sting, stink, stint, thing, think, thins, tight, tikis, tings, tints, titis.

-5 letters: ghis, gink, gins, gist, gits, hins, hint.

 Words containing the letters "g-h-i-i-k-n-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: nightstick.

 

+2 letters: nightsticks.

 

+4 letters: backstitching, lockstitching.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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