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hug-me-tight
[ huhg-mee-tahyt ]
/ ˈhʌg miˌtaɪt /
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noun
a woman's short, warm, close-fitting jacket, usually knitted or crocheted and often sleeveless.
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Origin of hug-me-tight
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
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How to use hug-me-tight in a sentence
And that means they also fall under the umbrella of programs most likely to get the axe when state and federal budgets are tight.
Because of the thinness of the air, there is a very tight margin between the correct and incorrect airspeeds, as little as 50 mph.
Weirich said whenever she saw Fox, she was wearing something too tight.
Major League Baseball, though, is still being tight-lipped about what the end of the embargo might mean for the sport.
With help, he got to his feet, and when she hugged him he lifted his arms slightly as if to return the hug.
"It's always the way with them," sighed Miss Grains, who suffered from a complication of romantic tendency and very tight stays.
His boyish suspenders had been put away in favor of a belt, which was tight-drawn about his slim waist.
She took to staring out across the grounds again, and one hand drew up slowly till it was doubled into a tight-shut little fist.
It is a very simple plan, and will be perfectly tight; it is by restoring an equilibrium on both sides of the piston.
Before that time we always put rope-yarn between the lap of the boiler-plates to make the seams tight.
British Dictionary definitions for hug-me-tight
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