Usually means: Frugal to the point of stinginess.
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  1. tight-arse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. tight-arse, tight-arse: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tight-arse: Wiktionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tight-arse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tight-arse: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Definitions from Wiktionary (Tight-arse)

noun:  Alternative spelling 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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