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tight spot

see under in a bind.

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RELATED WORDS

crunch, barrier, difficulty, inconvenience, drawback, holdup, hitch, glitch, obstacle, impediment, hurdle, bug, disadvantage, pickle, predicament, dilemma, quandary, box, hole, bind

Nearby words

  1. tight head,
  2. tight junction,
  3. tight rein on, a,
  4. tight ship,
  5. tight shot,
  6. tight squeeze,
  7. tight-assed,
  8. tight-fisted,
  9. tight-knit,
  10. tight-lipped
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