tightrope-walk
verbEtymology
The verb is a back-formation from tightrope walking.
Definitions
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, […]
- An East German circus artist tightrope-walked across a switched-off power line that had been left from pre-wall days.
- In Santa Monica, a daredevil tightrope-walks across a swing set.
To take a perilous course between alternatives.
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.
- He tightrope-walked to a Game 2 save, giving up back-to-back, two-out singles to Corey Dickerson and Yadier Molina before getting Tommy Edman to foul out.
The neighborhood
- neighbortightrope walk
- neighbortightrope walker
- neighbortightrope walking
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for tightrope-walk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA