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tightwires

tightwires is the plural of tightwire.

Meaning of tightwire

Noun

tightwire (plural tightwires)

  1. A tightrope.
    • The Chinese Conjurer's dramatic jumps, flexed wrists, and endless fingers are fascinating; the Acrobats, whose dance suggests tumbling, juggling, and walking on the tightwire, display a breathtaking virtuosity; the Little American Girl's pyrotechnical performance is pretty and pert; and the two men...1988 April 8, Cerinda Survant, “The Man Who Made History Dance”, in Chicago Reader

Questions about tightwires

What is tightwires the plural of?
Tightwires is the plural of tightwire.

Words near tightwires in the dictionary

  1. tightum
  2. tightwad
  3. tightwaddish
  4. tightwads
  5. tightwire
  6. tightwires
  7. tighty whiteys
  8. tighty whities
  9. tighty-whitey
  10. tighty-whiteys
  11. tighty-whities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tightwires (page history and authors); tightwire (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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