Noun: tight ship
| Singular | tight ship |
| Plural | tight ships |
Sample Sentences
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to run a tight ship
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You're new here, so let me lay it down for you. I run a pretty tight ship around here. That's why the students call me "the hammer". [1999, Strangers with Candy (television production), spoken by Chuck Noblet (Stephen Colbert):]
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I know your agent’s third cousin really wanted to hear their name, but the Oscar show producers run a tight ship, yes-sir-Bob. [2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London):]
Nouns inflected like tight ship
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology