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square shooter (plural square shooters)
- (idiomatic) A person who is fair, trustworthy, or forthright; a person who bargains or transacts business in a fair, honest manner.
- 1929 January 7, Manning Vaughn, “Putting 'em on the pan”, in Milwuakee Journal, retrieved 3 September 2012, page 5:
- For years he was in a position where a bribe, the turn of a crooked deal, a "queer" fight decision might mean thousands to him. But he was ever the square shooter. The crooked finger of scandal was never pointed his way.
- 1992 July 6, Walter Shapiro, “Spelling Out The Job Specs”, in Time:
- "I suppose it's because I have credibility as someone with integrity and as a square shooter."
- 2000, Matt Braun, Kinch Riley, reprint edition, Macmillan, published 2007, →ISBN, page 16:
- He'd always been aboveboard, a square shooter from start to finish.
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- “square shooter”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.