Definitions for tightrope

tightrope tight·rope

Spelling: [tahyt-rohp]
IPA: /ˈtaɪtˌroʊp/

Tightrope is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 337 anagrams from letters in tightrope (eghioprtt).

Definitions for tightrope

noun

  1. a rope or wire cable, stretched tight, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing.

verb (used with object)

  1. to make (one's way, course, etc.) on or as on a tightrope.

verb (used without object)

  1. to walk, move, or proceed on or as on a tightrope:

Origin of tightrope

First recorded in 1795-1805; tight + rope

Examples for tightrope

Bein' married that a-way, I takes it, is somethin' like walkin' a tightrope.

Father Bright felt as though he had been walking a tightrope for hours.

The clan had a tightrope act that went horribly wrong in 1962.

The self-styled ‘Art Criminal’ dazzled onlookers and made history when he tightrope walked between the WTC towers 40 years ago.

There were washed out trails where the ride would be in the nature of tightrope walking.

But it is refreshing, and a relief, that it can walk the tightrope of its own controversy just as skillfully.

The heir to a tightrope walking family has tried some crazy stunts in his day.

When a performer falls from the tightrope, who remembers all the times he has not failed?

Should you like to be a juggler, a tightrope walker, or a clown?

Is that the weirdest thing that's happened while tightrope walking?

Word Value for tightrope
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Words with friends

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