I would be grateful is someone would edit my Definition Essay. I am defining the slang word "tight" I do not have a conclusion paragraph yet because I am struggling trying to figure out how to transition and start the last paragraph. Thank you!!!
“Mrs. Seechoma, your
outfit is really tight”, one of the students at school said to me as I walked
down the hallway. I was horrified! I know I have gained some weight lately but
I thought my outfit looked rather becoming. It wasn’t until after talking to my
daughter at home later that day; that I discovered the student was actually
paying me a compliment and not insulting me. The word tight has become the
latest craze in vocabulary words with double meanings to hit the streets and today’s
youth is eating it all up.
Tight is just one of many words in today’s vocabulary
that has been revamped by the younger generation. The Urban Dictionary, an
online dictionary of slang words used by teenagers today, defines the word
tight as meaning: very good, excellent; cool, hip. It is meant to compliment a
person or object they find cool. You may hear them use the word to talk about
how great a car looks, such as “That car is tight”. Or “Look at his outfit, isn’t
it tight?” In my day we would have said,
“Isn’t that car narley!” Or “Look at his outfit! It’s bitchin” Our older generation who is not “hip” to the
new lingo the kids are using today would have made the same mistake I have and
thought of the more traditional meanings of the word tight when we hear it.
The most frequently understood definition of the word
tight, is the one that the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines as: “fitting very close to the body <tight
jeans>; also : too snug <tight shoes>” Hearing the word
tight automatically brings to mind those tight jeans you have in the closet
that is waiting for you to lose those last 5 pounds so you can get them over
your hips. Or those expensive shoes you paid way too much money for and can’t
wear because your feet look like stuffed sausages once you have managed to cram
your feet into them. If only these would look “tight” instead of just painful.
Seechoma
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Another meaning we
relate the word tight to is; difficult to
cope with <in a tight spot financially>:‘relatively
difficult to obtain <money is tight just now> (m-w.com)” This
definition of tight refers to money being in limited supply. We have all been
there, where at the end of the month money is scarce after paying all the
household bills. If you have to put your car in the shop to be fixed money
would be tight after paying the bill. You can’t drive a tight car if money is
too tight to fix it.