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tight ship

tight ship noun: a well-organized and highly disciplined organization.

Noun

tight ship (plural tight ships)

  1. (idiomatic) A well-organized and highly disciplined organization.
    • to run a tight ship
    • You're new here, so let me lay it down for you. I run a pretty tight ship around here. That's why the students call me "the hammer".1999, Strangers with Candy (television production), spoken by Chuck Noblet (Stephen Colbert)

Forms of tight ship

pluraltight ships

Questions about tight ship

What does tight ship mean?
Tight ship means a well-organized and highly disciplined organization.
What part of speech is tight ship?
Tight ship is a noun.
What is the plural of tight ship?
The plural of tight ship is tight ships.

Words near tight ship in the dictionary

  1. tight pants syndrome
  2. tight rope
  3. tight ropes
  4. tight scratch
  5. tight scratches
  6. tight ship
  7. tight ships
  8. tight slap
  9. tight slaps
  10. tight spot
  11. tight spots

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