Definition of sit tight
sit tight 
verb
- to stay in one place and wait patiently.
Citation from "All the Right Friends", Covert Affairs (TV), Season 2 Episode 4 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: to wait.
Last edited on Aug 11 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2011.
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Other terms relating to 'to wait': | |
| Definitions include: to calm down or wait. | |
| Definitions include: to wait. | |
| Definitions include: a period of waiting, during which little can be accomplished, until a particular external event occurs. | |
| Definitions include: to wait patiently. | |
| Definitions include: to be standing or sitting somewhere. | |
| Definitions include: to wait. | |
| Definitions include: to sit around waiting for something to happen. | |
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Other terms relating to 'sit': | |
| Definitions include: need to defecate. | |
| Definitions include: to sit in the middle seat in the front or back of a vehicle ("bitch"). | |
| Definitions include: a meeting. | |
| Definitions include: done in protest of something or someone, where the protestors non-threatening just occupy the space or building in which they are protesting in by sitting on the floor/ground and refusing to move for anything or anyone. Most likely later will be physically removed by a police officer, the protestor is supposed to let their bodies go limp and have to be dragged out. | |
| Definitions include: bisexual. | |
| Definitions include: to be in a favorable position. | |
| Definitions include: to sit in the passenger seat of a motor vehicle. | |
| Definitions include: a person who watches over someone or something - baby-sitter, house-sitter, dog-sitter, etc. | |
| Definitions include: a vulnerable person. | |
Other terms relating to 'tight': | |
| Definitions include: to wait patiently. | |
| Definitions include: cool. | |
| Definitions include: very good, excellent; "cool"; "awesome". | |
| Definitions include: a stingy person. | |
| Definitions include: nice buttocks. | |
| Definitions include: Description of a pleasing event, usually used in response to a story which has a positive outcome for the teller. | |
| Definitions include: means something is hella good. | |
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