close-knit

close-knit {adj.}

Closely joined together by ties of love, friendship, or common interest; close.

The Joneses are a close-knit family.

The three boys are always together. They form a very close-knit group.

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[knit] See: [CLOSE-KNIT]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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