tightrope-walk
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tightrope-walk
Where it comes from
The verb is a back-formation from tightrope walking.
verb tightrope-walks · tightrope-walking · tightrope-walked · tight-rope-walk · tightrope walk
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To walk on a tightrope or on (something) as though on one.
It was just 78 years ago that […] [Charles] Blondin tightrope-walked across the Niagara, […]
Similar: tightrope
- To take a perilous course between alternatives. In his speech tonight, McCain, who has backed [George Walker] Bush on such controversial issues as tax cuts and the Iraq war, will have to tightrope-walk his way between saluting Bush and making it clear that he’s something different, that he represents change.
noun tightrope-walks · tight-rope-walk · tightrope walk
- Alternative form of tightrope walk [Marshall] Goldberg then rounded his own right end and tightrope-walked the side chalk mark for 18 yards and a first down on the Washington 35.
Talk about this word "tightrope-walk." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tightrope-walk. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026. tightrope-walk. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 7, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tightrope-walk "tightrope-walk." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tightrope-walk.Cite this
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