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tight

adjective (RELATIONSHIP)
 
 
/taɪt/ informal

Definition

If you are tight with someone, you know them very well and like them a lot: We're tight - we've been best friends since we were at school.LikingBeing, becoming friends and getting to know someone
(Definition of tight adjective (RELATIONSHIP) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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