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this one is just a slightly unconventional usage of 'tight':
adv. (The adj. used adverbially.)
1. Soundly, roundly; = tightly 1. Now chiefly in colloq. phr. (good night) sleep tight, a conventional (rhyming) formula used when parting for the night or at bedtime. Also in slang phr. blow me tight: see blow
1933 E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! iii. ii. 101 Good night, Son. Sleep tight.
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