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on the tiles

on the tiles is the alternative form of out on the tiles.

Meaning of out on the tiles

Prepositional phrase

  1. (UK, idiomatic) Out for a night on the town.
    • "I've had a pint of bitter and now I'm feeling better and I'm out on the tiles." - Led Zeppelin, Out on the Tiles (1970).
    Synonyms:
    on the town

Questions about on the tiles

What is on the tiles the alternative form of?
On the tiles is the alternative form of out on the tiles.

Words near on the tiles in the dictionary

  1. on the tap
  2. on the tapis
  3. on the telephone
  4. on the tenterhooks
  5. on the tenters
  6. on the tiles
  7. on the tip of one's tongue
  8. on the tools
  9. on the toss of a coin
  10. on the town
  11. on the trot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: on the tiles (page history and authors); out on the tiles (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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