Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A snug stretchable garment covering the body from the waist or neck down, designed for general wear by women and girls.
- n. A similar garment designed for athletic use, worn especially by acrobats and dancers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Garments clinging closely to the legs, or to the whole form, and intended either to display the form or to facilitate movement, or both, as in the case of dancers, acrobats, or gymnasts.
Wiktionary
- n. A close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the waist down, usually including the feet.
- n. A similar, non-sheer garment worn by dancers of either sex, especially by ballet dancers.
- n. In blasting rock, a piece of unbroken rock within the pay limit of a blast.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs.
WordNet 3.0
- n. skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls
Etymologies
- From tight (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But we understand watching half naked men fighting turns you on, much like when you watch muscular men in tights “wrasslin” on TV.”
Think Progress » Palin’s talk show debut garners weak reviews, lower-than-expected ratings.
“Though when I hear that I think more about how comics went from all dudes in tights to a variety of emotional material, Ghost World, that kind of thing.”
“And high culture vs. low culture - I'd argue Watchmen is pretty good writing, but it comes with the dudes in tights, so it gets a minus just for that?”
“I prefer to NOT look at men in tights (or tight clothes).”
“February 7th, 2010 at 7: 00 pm lebowski says: lil johnson, why still here. you said you were going to go wank it to grown men in tights grabbing each other hours ago. your racism, childishness and general idiocy are not impressing — or surprising — anyone.”
Think Progress » Palin says she’s fine with Limbaugh’s use of the ‘r-word.’
“In the background, shirtless guys in tights keep moving white chairs around, like a bunch of indecisive wedding planners.”
“But I guess we all have our fantasies, be they the manufactured dramas of television, dueling with goblins and orcs, or steroid-fueled men in tights slamming their bodies into each other.”
“Was she wearing a boa and wrasslin 'tights when she announced her candidacy?”
“I just hope there are no You-Tube videos of Geoghagen in tights imitating Mick Jagger.”
“Cheesy plots and fairly cute girls in tights will do a better job of holding my attention for an hour.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tights’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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October 2011
serendipity, grateful, irritable, punchy, twitchy, reverence, solitude, levity, nubble, sojourn, Eden, quesadilla and 19 more...
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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Below the Belt
Anything worn from the waist down.
chausses, pantaloons, britches, trossers, buckskins, chaps, galligaskins, gregs, gaskins, breeches, knee breeches, knee pants and 93 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tights.
donostiarra The pictures for tights are not very helpful as they show mostly what are leg-warmers. As a whole, none of them really illustrate the definition given either: "skintight....from waist to the feet". A change of pictures please? Aug 15, 2009