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Lighten up is slang for to relax, to take things less seriously, calm down, cheer up.
Tight is slang for to be frugal or not generous. Tight is slang for drunk.Tight is American slang for friendly, close.
Eighteen pence is London Cockney rhyming slang for sense.
Ronson lighter is British slang for the anus (shiter).
, (tite) adj., Good, cool, striking, appealing, trendy, great, amazing. “Your calculator is so tight.â€Â “My new year’s eve was tight.â€Â Also, interj., great, wonderful. “We’re going to the store. Tight!†Also: tighty whities, jockey underwear. [Etym., Hip hop]
Watertight. eg. "The hatch is closed tight."
Kungfu fighter is rhyming Slang for lighter.
  A meal. "To do a Tightener," to take a Meal.
Tighten one's face is American slang for shut up, keep quiet.
Eighteen carat is British slang for first class.
Men's briefs; "Are you wearing tightie whities?" (ed: sorry - I just *cannot* see myself wandering into Target and asking where the 'tightie whities' are)
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v. t.
To make lighter, or less heavy; to reduce in weight; to relieve of part of a load or burden; as, to lighten a ship by unloading; to lighten a load or burden.
v. t.
To make tense, or tight; to tighten.
a.
Farsighted and strong-sighted; sharp-sighted.
imp. & p. p.
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v. t.
To convey by a lighter, as to or from the shore; as, to lighter the cargo of a ship.
a.
Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.
n.
The number greater by a unit than seventeen; eighteen units or objects.
adv.
In a tight manner; closely; nearly.
v. i.
To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky.
v. t.
To make less tight or tense; to loosen.
n.
A symbol denoting eighteen units, as 18 or xviii.
superl.
Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water-tight; air-tight.
v. t.
To make less burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate; as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief.
v. t.
To tighten.
v. t.
To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.
a.
Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp-sighted, and the like.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
That which tightens; specifically (Mach.), a tightening pulley.
n.
One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.
v. t.
To make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets.
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