tights

tights

English

Opaque tights

Etymology

From tight.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /taɪts/
• Rhymes: -aɪts

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

tights pl (plural only)

1. (UK) A close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the waist down, usually including the feet.

   Synonym: (US) pantyhose

2. (dance) A similar, non-sheer garment worn by dancers of either sex, especially by ballet dancers.
3. (wrestling) A garment, similar to briefs, worn chiefly by professional wrestlers.
4. (mining) In blasting rock, a piece of unbroken rock within the pay limit of a blast.

Usage notes

US English uses the term pantyhose to refer to sheer tights.

Descendants

• → Japanese: タイツ (taitsu)

Translations

women's garment

Bulgarian: чорапогащи (čorapogašti) Chinese: Cantonese: 連褲襪, 连裤袜 (lin4 fu3 mat6) Mandarin: 連褲襪／连裤袜 (zh) (liánkùwà) Czech: punčocháče (cs) f Danish: strømpebukse c Dutch: collant (nl) Esperanto: kalsonŝtrumpo Finnish: sukkahousut (fi) pl French: collant (fr) m German: Strumpfhose (de) f Hungarian: harisnyanadrág (hu), harisnya (hu) Icelandic: sokkabuxur (is) f pl Ido: kalzego (io) Irish: riteoga f pl Italian: collant (it) m Japanese: パンティストッキング (ja) (pantisutokkingu), タイツ (taitsu) Korean: 팬티 스타킹 (paenti seutaking), 타이츠 (taicheu) Luxembourgish: Collant m Macedonian: хулахо́пки f pl (hulahópki) Maltese: kalzetti pl Norwegian: Bokmål: strømpebukse (no) m or f Nynorsk: strømpebukse f Polish: rajstopy (pl) pl Portuguese: meia-calça (pt) f Romanian: colanți (ro) m pl, dres (ro) n Russian: колго́тки (ru) f pl (kolgótki) Scottish Gaelic: stocainnean f pl Spanish: panti (es) m or f, pantimedia f Swedish: strumpbyxor (sv) c pl, tajts c pl Turkish: tayt (tr) Welsh: teits

dancer's garment

Bulgarian: трико n (triko) Dutch: collant (nl) Finnish: trikoot pl French: collant (fr) m Irish: riteoga f pl Italian: calzamaglia (it) f Macedonian: хела́нки f pl (helánki), трико́ n (trikó) Russian: колго́тки (ru) f pl (kolgótki), трико́ (ru) n (trikó) Scottish Gaelic: stocainnean f pl Spanish: malla (es) f Swedish: trikåer (sv) c pl

Anagrams

• stight

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English tights.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑɪts/

Noun

tights m (definite singular tightsen, indefinite plural tights or tightsar, definite plural tightsane)

1. tights

Synonyms

• strømpebukse

References

• “tights” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.