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Verb
/ˈtītˌrōp/,
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tightropes, plural;
  1. Walk or perform on such a rope

Noun
  1. A rope or wire stretched tightly high above the ground, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing
    • - a tightrope walker
    • - he continues to walk a tightrope between success and failure
  1. tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground
  2. Tightrope walking (or funambulism) is the art of walking along a thin wire or rope, usually at a great height. One or more artists performs in front of an audience (a common act in circuses) or as a publicity stunt (often attempting to set location-specific distance or height records). ...
  3. Tight Rope is the sixth studio album by country duo Brooks & Dunn, released in 1999 on Arista Nashville. ...
  4. "Tightrope" is the title of the opening track to A New World Record by Electric Light Orchestra.
  5. Tightrope (1984) is a suspense thriller starring Clint Eastwood as Wes Block, a detective investigating a string of sexually-related murders in New Orleans. ...
  6. Tightrope was an event played during the initial UK series of Gladiators. In this event, contender and Gladiator have to pull themselves along a rope to a half way platform and then zip line back down it to the finish post.
  7. "Tightrope" is a 2010 song by American singer Janelle Monáe. It is the first official single from The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III). ...
  8. Tightrope is a children's novel by Gillian Cross, published in 1999. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
  9. The song, "Tightrope", was recorded by the Chicago pop-punk band Screeching Weasel during the sessions for their tenth studio album, Emo. The song was, however, left off the album when released "simply because Ben Weasel didn't feel it [fitted] in thematically". ...
  10. Tightrope is the debut album from Australian pop singer Stephanie McIntosh, which was released on September 9, 2006, and re-released on March 19, 2007. ...
  11. Tightrope is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 1959 to September 1960. Produced by Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene in cooperation with Screen Gems, the series stars Mike Connors as an undercover agent named "Nick" who was assigned to infiltrate criminal gangs. ...
  12. a novel form of cranial cruciate ligament repair involving the implantation of a special suture, anchored via bone-tunnels to stabilise the stifle.
  13. Maria Braden (1 episode, 1960)