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tighteners

tighteners is the plural of tightener.

Meaning of tightener

Noun

tightener (plural tighteners)

  1. Something used to tighten.
  2. (UK, archaic, slang) A large meal; a feast or blowout.
    • 184?, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor
      One proposed going to Hungerford-market to do a feed on decayed shrimps or other offal laying about the market; another proposed going to Covent-garden to do a 'tightener' of rotten oranges, to which I was humorously invited; […]

Questions about tighteners

What is tighteners the plural of?
Tighteners is the plural of tightener.

Words near tighteners in the dictionary

  1. tightened the purse strings
  2. tightened the purse-strings
  3. tightened the pursestrings
  4. tightened up
  5. tightener
  6. tighteners
  7. tightenest
  8. tighteneth
  9. tightening
  10. tightening down
  11. tightening gel

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