straight
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Is straight a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (of a path, trajectory, etc.) Direct, undeviating.Examples: "Now, as the world knows, the straightest way to the heart of the honest voter is through the women of the land, and the straightest way to the heart of the women is through the children of the land; and one method of winning both, with rural politicians, is to kiss the babies wide and far."; "He had no time to set himself, but his throw was straight and true. Pick slid in, spikes high, and Schang tagged him in the ribs a foot or two from the plate."; "Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee."usually
2. (cricket) Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.Examples: "Steyn continues and it's all a bit more orderly down his end as O'Brien defends the first three balls with a straight bat and a respectful dip of the head."
3. (engineering, of an internal-combustion engine) Having all cylinders in a single straight line; in-line.
4. (tennis) Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.Examples: "Murray started well against Marcos Baghdatis before slumping to defeat in straight sets and the British No1 admitted he may not have been mentally prepared for the rigours of the ATP Tour after a gruelling start to 2011."
5. (US, politics) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.Examples: "a straight Republican"; "a straight Democrat"US
6. (US, politics) Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.Examples: "a straight ballot"US
noun (English)
1. (poker) Five cards in sequence.
2. (colloquial) A heterosexual.Examples: "My friends call straights "heteros"."Synonyms: hetero, breedercolloquial
3. (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.Examples: "You live with straights who tell you you was king / Jump when your momma tell you anything"; "Boys! Boys! You're scaring the straights, okay? Is there any way that we could do this tomorrow?"; "More importantly, Blows Against the Empire […] more than any other work revealed the split vision towards space exploration among many in the counter-culture: a romantic vision of the freedom offered by space that had been fostered by a lifetime of science fiction consumption, immersion in a technological society, the countercultural yearning for speed and “the road,” and, thanks to LSD and other hallucinogens, a unique preappreciation of space traveling not available to straights, versus the bland, oppressive vision of exploration offered by NASA, itself just one part of a larger destructive system that was devastating Earth and that could only offer further oppression in space, not liberation."Synonyms: basic bitch, bourgeois, L7, mainstreamer, mainstreamist, muggle, mundane, normalslang
4. (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.Examples: "A straight = a straighter = a straight cut, une cigarette en tabac de Virginie.]"Synonyms: straighterslang
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To straighten.Examples: "One man draws out the wire , another straights it , a third cuts it , a fourth points it , a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head"transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary