tight-rope-walks
tight-rope-walks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tight-rope-walk.
Meaning of tight-rope-walk
Verb
tight-rope-walk (third-person singular simple present tight-rope-walks, present participle tight-rope-walking, simple past and past participle tight-rope-walked)
- Dated spelling of tightrope-walk.
- Gendarmes rolled small but substantial bridges into place midway in the blocks adjacent to the plaza. To these pedestrians fled from the shelter of shops, tight-rope-walked across, and then fled along the slippery sidewalks to seek another refuge from the deluge.1924 April 6, Wade Griswold, “A Night in San Salvador”, in Illustrated Daily News, volume 1, number 200, Los Angeles, Calif.: Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., →OCLC, Magazine section, page 15, column 2
Questions about tight-rope-walks
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- Tight-rope-walks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tight-rope-walk.
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