"tightner" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tightners [plural]
Etymology: Alternative spelling of tightener. Head templates: {{en-noun}} tightner (plural tightners)
  1. (Slang) A meal, particularly a large one. Tags: slang Derived forms: Scots tuppeny tightner (english: a twopenny fish-and-chip meal.)
    Sense id: en-tightner-en-noun-AaLoNIBN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1857, James Ewing Ritchie, “The Costermongers' Free-And-Easy”, in The Night Side of London, page 193:",
          "text": "Master Whelkey will answer perhaps, \"But kool the esilop (look at the police), kool him (look at him). Curly: Nommus (be off), I am going to do the tightner\" (have my dinner).",
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        "A meal, particularly a large one."
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