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uptight(dictionary)

uptight (iou)



uptight adjective. M20.
[from UP- + TIGHT adjective..]
Nervously tense or angry, unwarrantedly worried, inhibited; overly formal or correct, strait-laced, rigidly conventional. colloq. M20.
F. Pohl We just sleep wherever is convenient, and nobody gets uptight about it. G. Naylor Why are you always so uptight about sex or men? New Statesman Blacks are more natural than uptight whites.
Excellent, fine. slang (chiefly US). M20.
Short or out of money, penniless. US slang. M20.
uptightness noun M20.