straight

1. adjective, slang Heterosexual. We all wondered if he was straight or not. I don't think there was a single straight woman at the concert.

2. adjective, slang Not under the effects or influence of drugs or alcohol; sober. I've been on a bender all weekend. Now I need to get straight before the big board meeting.

3. adjective, slang Feeling relieved or functional from the ingestion of drugs or alcohol. I just need a quick line of coke to get me straight, then I'm off the stuff for good! Here, drink this whiskey. It'll help get you straight.

4. adjective, slang Having no debt owed to or by someone else. Just buy me lunch and we'll be straight. Sound good? Here's that $50 I owed you. I wanted us to be straight before I moved.

5. adjective, slang Traditional or conservative (in morals, politics, faith, etc.). My parents are the straightest people I know, so I was shocked to learn that they regularly smoked weed in college. He used to have some pretty outlandish views during college, but he's gotten rather straight as he's gotten older.

6. adjective, slang Having no more cause for quarrel, disagreement, or misunderstanding. A: "How're things with you and Brian? Did you get things worked out?" B: "Yeah, we're straight."

7. noun, slang A heterosexual person. Usually used in the plural. We don't get too many straights in this bar.

8. noun, slang A normal, conventional, or conservative person; a square. Usually used in the plural. The straights running this city are trying to clamp down on the makeshift communities occupying abandoned land. I always wore the craziest outfits I could come up with during high school. The bemused looks I got from the straights never ceased to amuse me.

straight

1. mod. honest; unembellished. Have I ever been anything but straight with you?

2. n. a tobacco cigarette; a tobacco cigarette butt. (see also slim.) No, I want a straight. That spliff makes me sneeze.

3. mod. having to do with undiluted liquor. I’ll take mine straight.

4. mod. relieved and satisfied by a dose of drugs. (Drugs.) She will be straight for a few hours, and then the same struggle all over again—all through the night.

5. mod. off drugs; no longer addicted to drugs. I’m straight now, and I’m gonna stay that way.

6. n. a square person (who does not use drugs, etc.). The straights are putting pressure on city hall to clean up this neighborhood.

7. n. a nonhomosexual; a heterosexual. (Often from the homosexual point of view.) Walter invited a few straights to the affair, just to keep things calm.

8. mod. not homosexual; not having a homosexual orientation. He wandered into a straight bar by mistake.

9. mod. excellent. This news is truly straight and I am happy to hear it.

10. mod. satisfied; having enough food or anything. Another beer? No thanks. I’m straight.

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References in periodicals archive

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Through a massive media, public relations, and advertising "propaganda campaign." "Gays must launch a large-scale campaign--we've called it the Waging Peace campaign--to reach straights through the mainstream media," the co-authors wrote.

Subversion through perversion: the spreading homosexual degeneracy in our culture is not the result of natural moral decay; it is the manifestation of planned revolution by a subversive elite

Conservatives may argue that allowing gay marriage endangers matrimony for straights; in fact, creating alternatives to marriage, inch as civil unions, is far more likely to undermine the institution of marriage.

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I hope that, besides the three chapters of Straight Talk in the southern Ontario area, there are similar chastity education organizations elsewhere in Canada.

Straight Talk on chastity. (Lay Movements XVI)

In the past five years, public awareness of straight edge has slowly increased through the commercial mass media of American television, newspapers, and national news magazines.

Re-imagining being "straight" in straight edge

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TWO options for making edge joints with a router

Stanton, as it happens, turns up at the end of The Straight Story, as Alvin's dilapidated brother--a lean-to shack on legs--and there's something immensely satisfying about the pairing of Farnsworth and the eternally ornery ex-repo man.

LYNCH MOB

I first noticed this trend in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) where the gay couple in the story proves to be eminently more stable, mature, and poetic than any of the gaggle of rather silly straights running from bedroom to bedroom in search of true love.

Out of your closet and into your living room

Just think of what happens on The Simpsons when Marge takes a bath: She emerges from her tub with long straight blue locks.

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Keeping the thighs taut and the knees straight after an eleve, the dancer descends from the full pointe by releasing to demi-pointe, then descending smoothly until the heels are on the floor.

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'Just a thought, instead of [a] 'Straight Pride' parade, how about this: The 'desperately trying to bury our own gay thoughts by being homophobic because no one taught us how to access our emotions as children' parade?

Chris Evans, 'View' hosts reject 'Straight Pride' parade

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Straight Path Communications to Nix AT/T Deal; Goes with USD 184/Share Offer from Verizon

For instance: the messy love quadrangle that is Gay, Straight or Taken?

She's better off single