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Definition of uptight - 4 dictionary results
Feeling Uptight?
Stress and anxiety can cause you to feel uptight all the time. More.
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up⋅tight

  [uhp-tahyt]
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–adjective Slang.
1. tense, nervous, or jittery.
2. annoyed or angry.
3. stiffly conventional in manner or attitudes.
Origin:
1960–65, Americanism; up (perh. as intensifier) + tight

Related forms:
up⋅tight⋅ness, noun
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Feeling Uptight?
Stress and anxiety can cause you to feel uptight all the time. More.
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up·tight   (ŭp'tīt')   
adj.   Slang

  1. Tense; nervous.

  2. Financially pressed; destitute.

  3. Outraged; angry.

  4. Rigidly conventional, as in manners, opinions, and tastes: "She sees this headlong, headstrong, plunge into worldliness as a protracted process of shucking the shame of her uptight upbringing" (James Wolcott).

up'tight'ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
uptight

  1. mod.
    anxious. : Dave always seems uptight about something.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

uptight 
Slang sense of "tense" is from 1934; that of "straight-laced" first recorded 1969. It was used in a sense of "excellent" in jazz slang c.1962.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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