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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 building syndrome
  2. tight end
  3. tight ends
  4. tight five
  5. tight fives
  6. tight head
  7. tight heads
  8. tight junction
  9. tight junctions
  10. tight lips
  11. tight loop

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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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