Straight
//stɹeɪt//
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The word "straight" can be used as adjective, adjective, noun, adverb, adverb, verb and proper noun.
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I'm straight arrow-straight back straight bone-straight damn straight draw a straight furrow gay-straight alliance get one's head straight get one's story straight get straight go straight gut-shot straight have one's head screwed on straight home straight inside straight inside straight draw keep straight not see straight nut straight open ended straight draw pit straight play it straight put straight put the record straight ramrod straight real and straight right out straight scare straight set straight set the record straight shoot someone straight straight A straight A's straight As straight ahead straight and narrow straight angle straight apostrophe straight arch straight arm straight arrow straight as a die straight as a soldier straight as an arrow straight away straight bat straight bridge straight chain straight cigarette straight condenser straight cover straight dinkum straight dope straight edge straight engine straight face straight flush straight from the horse's mouth straight from the shoulder straight goods straight hit straight job straight lace straight line straight man straight off straight out straight out of the chute straight out of the gate straight peen hammer straight piano straight play straight poker straight pool straight pride straight pull straight quote straight r straight razor straight red straight red card straight shirttail straight shooter straight sinus straight supremacy straight talk straight talker straight ticket straight time straight tip straight trade straight up straight up and down straight woman straight, no chaser straight-A straight-acting straight-arm straight-chain straight-cut straight-edger straight-eight straight-faced straight-from-the-shoulder straight-hearted straight-joint straight-laced straight-piped straight-pull straight-sets straight-shooter straight-shooting straight-six straight-thinking straight-through straight-tusked elephant straightaway straightedge straighten straightfolk straightforward straightjacket straightly straightness straightwash straightway super straight superstraight the length of the Flemington straight think straight up and down straight draw up-and-down straight draw walk a straight line walk in straight lines
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alcohol bat bent cigarette conventional crooked delay detour direct direction dishonesty drugs extended heterosexual honest horizontal incline interruption lawful line line direction mainstream marijuana match narrow neat normal parallel transport pause person plus size sequence set spirit straight as straighten straightforward strait stretched tangent thin tobacco undeviating undiluted unevasive unmixed vector vertical wicket
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aboveboard aboveboard accurate accurate aligned aligned continuous conventional conventional correct correct direct erect even even guileless guileless heterosexual heterosexual honest honorable lawful perpendicular right straight-arrow straightarrow straightarrow straightforward tidy tidy trabeate trabeated trabeated transparent unbent unbent uncurled uncurled uncurved uncurving uncurving undiluted uninterrupted unpermed unpermed untwisted untwisted upright vertical
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