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語源

From air +‎ tight.

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形容詞

airtight (comparative more airtight, superlative most airtight)

1. Impermeable to air or other gases.
   • 2024 September 18, Eliza Ronalds-Hannon, “Tupperware Files for Bankruptcy Amid Declining Sales and Growing Competition”, in Time‎, archived from the original on 13 December 2024:

     Tupperware founder Earl Tupper in 1946 introduced its plastic products to the public, and subsequently patented their flexible airtight seal.

2. (figuratively) Having no weak points or flaws.

   We have an airtight argument they won’t be able to punch holes in.

   airtight alibi

   airtight excuse

   airtight lie

   airtight will

   • 1990 April 28, Patricia Roth Schwartz, “The Odd Couple”, in Gay Community News, page 7:

     She creates an airtight world of her imagining.

3. (figuratively, of a person) Highly reserved in some matter, particularly tight-lipped or tight-fisted.
   • 1908, The Plumbers Trade Journal, Plumbers’ Trade Journal Publishing Company, volume 44:

     when Roger asked for $100 to take the preliminary steps to establish his claim, Mike yelled like a Hebrew auctioneer, for he was air-tight and squeezed a dollar until the woman on it yelled.

   • 1915 April, Annals of Iowa, Historical Department of Iowa, series 3, volume 12, page 599:

     He was ‘air-tight,’ close-mouthed, and had but few confidants or intimate friends, but numerous acquaintances.

4. (figuratively, pornography, of a person) Triply penetrated simultaneously in the vagina, anus and mouth.

同意語

• (impermeable to air): hermetic

反意語

• breathable
• transpirable

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