Meaning

3 senses
  1. Of a room or house, of small volume, cramped.

    eng

    те́сныйtésnyj

  2. (slang)Slow.

  3. (slang)Of a car, fast.

More definitions
  • small and remote and insignificant
  • wasting time

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Tom spent all night in the pokey.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
cramped:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
cramped:

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedpoke

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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