skinny tie
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- noun
- Archaic
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- The groom chose a skinny tie for his wedding to match the vintage theme.
- suit and skinny tie
- wearing a skinny tie
- shirts with skinny ties
Examples
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He wore a stylish skinny tie that complemented his sleek suit at the party.
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There were always classmates to eat lunch with, sad boys keeping the desultory dress code, wearing the same skinny ties every day and getting away with blue-jean dress shirts.
Academic text (2007) -
He stood in the bedroom doorway in his dark suit and skinny tie.
Fiction book (2002) -
I do, however, miss the days when TV reporting was just a couple of black and white guys with skinny ties reporting the events without the opinion bits.
Blog text (23) -
Draper's an ad man after all, so style and marketing go together like narrow lapels and skinny ties.
Blog text (25) -
Putting your life on the line in the military is very much different from donning a short-sleeved white shirt, a skinny tie, and a bicycle helmet.
Blog text (28) -
If you've already donned a dinner jacket and skinny tie as a Jersey Boy or showed off your six-pack as Spider-Man, it's time to consider a hot new Broadway-themed costume!
Blog text (29) -
In the 1960s, many young men opted for a skinny tie as a fashion statement.
Synonyms
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1.0
A long narrow piece of cloth worn around the neck and knotted at the front
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A long narrow piece of cloth you wear under a shirt collar and tie at the front
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6.5
A very narrow necktie made of string or ribbon and tied in a bow
How Narrow
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a narrow necktie' follows directly from combining 'skinny' (very thin) with 'tie' (a neck-worn cloth); the adjective straightforwardly describes the noun's width. This adjective+noun compositional pattern is common and predictable cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The name skinny tie comes from the simple image of a very narrow tie, a skinny strip of cloth worn at the neck. In the 1950s and 1960s young people liked this thin look as a sign of being 'modern', so the name came to mean a narrow necktie.