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tight-rope-walking

tight-rope-walking noun: dated spelling of tightrope walking. Also the present participle and gerund of tight-rope-walk.

Noun

tight-rope-walking (uncountable)

  1. Dated spelling of tightrope walking.
    • The audience, who are his conjurated partizans, are in the secret; they come to witness his exhibition as they would witness the tight-rope-walking of Madame Sacchi, under the idea of its being something that is quite prodigious.1825 June 19, Philo-dramaticus [pseudonym], “A Letter to C[harles] Kemble, Esq., and [Robert] W[illiam] Elliston, Esq., on the Present State of the Stage”, in The Observer, London: W[illiam] I[nnell]...
    • It is something to find even tight-rope-walking carried to perfection.1865 August 16, “Tight-Rope”, in New-York Daily Tribune, volume XXV, number 7,600, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 5

Also used as

tight-rope-walking is also the present participle and gerund of tight-rope-walk.

Questions about tight-rope-walking

What does tight-rope-walking mean?
Tight-rope-walking means dated spelling of tightrope walking.
What part of speech is tight-rope-walking?
Tight-rope-walking is a noun.

Words near tight-rope-walking in the dictionary

  1. tight-lippedness
  2. tight-rope
  3. tight-rope walking
  4. tight-rope-walk
  5. tight-rope-walked
  6. tight-rope-walking
  7. tight-rope-walks
  8. tight-ropes
  9. tightass
  10. tightasses
  11. tightbeam

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