physical tension, strain / mental strain, nervousness / tension in a relationship / the contracted state of a muscle

be physically tense / be mentally tense, be nervous / for a relationship to suffer tension / for a muscle to contract

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

fasten, tie up, arrest, constrict

to bind, bundle, fasten, tie up / to enclose / to hang oneself / to consolidate, summarize / to resolve / to estimate / to tie-dye / to constrain, detain

to hang with a string, for example

(archaic) to be constricted

ken, a game played with the hands; a game of hands; in Italian, mor(r)a, a game in which two (or more) players each suddenly display a hand showing zero to five fingers and call out what they think will be the sum of all fingers shown.