"tightener" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From tighten + -er. Referring to a meal, suggests the tightening of one's belt around the expanding waistline.",
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          "text": "184?, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor\nOne proposed going to Hungerford-market to do a feed on decayed shrimps or other offal laying about the market; another proposed going to Covent-garden to do a 'tightener' of rotten oranges, to which I was humorously invited; […]"
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          "text": "Now a belt like this is a great saving to a man inasmuch as he can save many a meal by wearing it; all you have to do if you want to save a meal is to buckle in a hole or two tighter, and you will feel as if you have had a tightener and will not miss your dinner for that day.",
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        "(UK, slang, archaic) A large meal; a feast or blowout."
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