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tight-head

tight-head is the alternative form of tighthead.

Meaning of tighthead

Noun

tighthead (plural tightheads)

  1. prop who plays on the right-hand side of the front row of the scrum, such that in a scrum, their head is tightly bound between those of the opposing hooker and loosehead

Forms of tight-head

pluraltight-heads

Questions about tight-head

What is tight-head the alternative form of?
Tight-head is the alternative form of tighthead.

Words near tight-head in the dictionary

  1. tight-assed
  2. tight-asses
  3. tight-collar
  4. tight-fisted
  5. tight-fitting
  6. tight-head
  7. tight-heads
  8. tight-knit
  9. tight-laced
  10. tight-lipped
  11. tight-lippedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tight-head (page history and authors); tighthead (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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