Usually means: Sailing nearly against the wind.
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  1. close to the wind: Merriam-Webster
  2. close to the wind: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. close to the wind: Collins English Dictionary
  4. close to the wind: Vocabulary.com
  5. close to the wind: Wordnik
  6. close to the wind: Wiktionary
  7. Close to the wind, close to the wind: Dictionary.com
  8. close to the wind: Rhymezone
  9. close to the wind: FreeDictionary.org
  10. close to the wind: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. close to the wind: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. close to the wind: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (close to the wind)

adjective:  (figurative) Near a limit of feasibility or compliance with law or morality.
adjective:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see close to, the, wind.
adverb:  (nautical) In a direction almost opposite to that from which the wind is blowing.
adverb:  (figurative) Near a limit of feasibility or compliance with law or morality.
adverb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see close to, the, wind.

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