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square
adjective- old fashioned; decent and honest; conventional US, 1946
- The other patients were a pretty square and sorry lot. Not another junkie in the place. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 93, 1953
- One of the little pigs was very cool, another was more on the commercial side, and the third was, beyond the shadow of a doubt, square. — Steve Allen, Bop Fables, p. 18, 1955
- Dig the square wardrobe! — Rebel Without a Cause, 1955
- Their rules were their rules and they disdained square advice. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 285, 1956
- One is Hip or one is Square (the alternative which each new gener-ation coming into American life is beginning to feel), one is a rebel or one conforms[.] — Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, p. 339, 1957
- Not only does scuffling often consume more time and brainpower than a square job, but its effect on leisure is more stultifying than any job dissatisfaction would be. — Dissent, p. 346, Summer 1961
- Other square situations that you might someday find yourself facing are installation proceedings, when Dad becomes chief of his lodge[.] — Dick Clark, To Goof or Not to Goof, p. 167, 1963
- They can tell pimps from square guys. They can tell square girls from prostitutes. — Susan Hall, Gentleman of Leisure, p. 4, 1972
- heterosexual AUSTRALIA, 1944
- He looks the square type all right, but not the two-timing type. — Neville Jackson, No end to the way, p. 61, 1965
- in cricket, used to describe fielding positions along an imaginary line extending to the left and right of the batsman’s wicket UK, 1851
▶ live square
to conduct your life as an honest citizen AUSTRALIA- — The (Sydney) Bulletin, 26 April 1975
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