Usually means: Excessively frugal or overly strict.
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  1. tight-ass: Merriam-Webster
  2. tight-ass: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tight-ass: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tight-ass: Wordnik
  5. tight-ass: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. tight-ass: Wiktionary

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  1. tight-ass: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Tight-ass)

noun:  Alternative form of tightass [(slang, mildly vulgar) Someone who does not know how to have fun, or who is so worried about insignificant things as to ruin any fun that anyone around them may be having.]


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