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tight-rope
n. (alternative spelling of tightrope English)
Usage examples of "tight-rope".
There were passports with the watermarks of a dozen governmentsdriving licenses, pilot's licences, ration books, credit cards, birth certificates, warrants, identification cards, passes, permits, memberships, and authorisations enough to establish anyone in any role from a Bulgarian tight-rope walker to a wholesale fish merchant from Grimsby.
All the mothers could (and did) dance, upon the slack wire and the tight-rope, and perform rapid acts on bare-backed steeds.