Word after "loose" or "tight" (4)

I believe the answer is:

ends

(Other definitions for ends that I've seen before include "Objectives, purposes" , "Destroys" , "Ceases, closes or dies" , "They may justify the means" , "Poles, aims" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.

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