You've got a ladder in your tights.

[Shie0605]

You've got a ladder in your tights.

I found the sentence in a dictionary.

Is "in your tights" used as an adjective to modify "a ladder" or as an adverb to modify "got a ladder"?

 

[Tarheel]

I'd say it's an adverb.

What is meant by that sentence?

 

[probus]

In women's tights or nylon stockings a run in AmE is the same as a ladder in BrE. Both mean the same thing: a tear has developed in the woven fabric.

 

[emsr2d2]

@Shie0605 Please provide the full source - we need the name of the dictionary and, ideally, a link to the page where you found the sentence. Please also tell us what single word you were looking up when you found that sentence.