straight-up
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See also: straight up
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English streight up (“straight, erect, not curved or crooked, direct, honest”), equivalent to straight + up.
Adjective[edit]
straight-up (not comparable)
- (colloquial) True; unambiguous; unqualified; plainly so, with no bones about it.
- From her recent comments, I think she's a straight-up racist.
- 2012 May 21, Robert McMillan, “How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads”, in Wired:
- Because it doesn’t actually produce anything, some knock Rockstar as a straight-up patent troll.
- Of an alcoholic drink: served straight up.
- I'm going to go get a straight-up cocktail.
Adverb[edit]
straight-up (not comparable)
- Alternative form of straight up
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