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straight
adjective- heterosexual US, 1941
- Back in the days when I was first in the navy, I didn’t know a gay guy from a straight guy. — Willard Motely, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 210, 1958
- — Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy, The Homosexual and His Society, p. 266, 1963: “A lexicon of homosexual slang”
- Whatever a guy does with other guys, if he does it for money, that don’t make him queer. You’re still straight. — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 45, 1963
- The hostility of the minority “leather” crowd toward the rest of the “gay” world is exceeded by the bitterness of individual homosexuals toward the “straight” world.“ — Life, p. 70, 26 June 1964
- Listen, asshole, what am I going to do? He’s straight. — Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, p. 32, 1968
- The story involves only four characters: two lovers, their “swishy” neighbor, and an old “straight” friend who is a boyhood buddy of one of the lovers. — Screw, p. 20, 27 October 1969
- One day he told me that if there was anything that could make him go straight, it was me. — Jefferson Poland and Valerie Alison, The Records of the San Francisco Sexual Freedom League, p. 46, 1971
- — Maledicta, p. 199, 1983: “Ritual and personal insults in stigmatized subcultures”
- I like being straight. And I think heterosexuality is making a comeback. — Boys on the Side, 1995
- conventional, not part of the counterculture US, 1960
- Of course, they were all straight. They weren’t into any crime or stuff like that, as far as I know. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 185, 1965
- I walked toward them & thru them—was almost busted—but my guardian angel (temporarily acquired) looked straight enough to get us through. — The San Francisco Orale, 1966
- Another threat is unwanted visitors–the sightseers from “straight” society and the weekend hippies who descend upon them to freeload. — Life, p. 16B, 18 July 1969
- Yes, some of us do have straight jobs and others devote more of their time to the movement. — The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog, p. 15, March 1971
- I want to be straight, I want to be straight / I want to create a place of my own in the Welfare State[.] — Ian Dury, I Want To Be Straight, 1980
- This is like a real vacation-type vacation that straight people go on. — Cleo Odzer, Goa Freaks, p. 74, 1995
- not currently drug-intoxicated; no longer using drugs UK, 1967
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 110, 1996
- The terror of facing their daily grind “straight” was unimaginable. — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says ..., p. 170, 2000
- When people are straight they don’t come bounding up to you[.] — Dave Haslam, Adventures of the Wheels of Steel, p. 114, 2001
- under the influence of drugs, or at least not suffering from withdrawal symptoms US, 1946
- Main-lining her. Capping her straight. — John D. McDonald, The Neon Jungle, p. 46, 1953
- I need fifty, Baby, so I can get straight. I been lushed all day. — John Clellon Holmes, The Horn, p. 81, 1958
- When they get straight–really feeling good from stuff–they don’t want to have nothing to do with no man[.] — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 117, 1958
- You wanna get straight? — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 81, 1960
- I don’t get high anymore. I just get straight; I take a cure. I’m just normal, that’s all. — Jeremy Larner and Ralph Tefferteller, The Addict in the Street, p. 233, 1964
- This is his “wake-up,” a morning shot to hold off the anxiety and sickness of withdrawal and get him “straight” enough to start the day. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 14, 1966
- But this friend of mine would come over and we’d go to the bathroom and I’d cop a little old fix and be straight for a few days. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 110, 1972
- Enough to keep us straight so we won’t have to worry bout coppin’ for awhile. — Vernon E. Smith, The Jones Men, p. 177, 1974
- Hi, man–my name is Victor–you want to get straight? — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 101, 1980
- I was straight now but still fragile, and just as I settled, the phone rang again. — Peter Coyote, Sleeping Where I Fall, p. 62, 1998
- correct US, 1996
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 6, Fall 1996
- good, pleasing, acceptable US
- A-Wax: Cool, how you feelin’ man? Caine: I’m straight. — Menace II Society, 1993
- — Don R. McCreary (Editor), Dawg Speak, 2001
- To declare that you are all right in your current state of being, as if to say, “I’m cool,” or “I’m good already.” — Desert Morning News (Salt Lake city), 29 June 2004
- of an utterance, outspoken, straightforward UK, 1894
- The need for straight talking[.] — The Guardian, 8 July 2002
- honest, honourable, frank UK, 1864
- Foreign Man, a sweet, naive straight man, and an Elvis Presley impression. — Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths, p. 38, 2001
- of alcoholic drinks, undiluted US, 1874
- He was fueling himself on straight whisky at eleven in the morning. — Andrea Camilleri and Stephen Sartarelli, The Terra-Cotta Dog, p. 276, 2003
- without a “minus” or “plus” attached to a grade US
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 205, 1968
- looking to buy drugs UK
- Police said the 48-year-old victim was bicycling down the road when two men in a silver car drove up from behind. The passenger asked the victim if he was “straight”–street slang for someone who is trying to buy drugs. — The Florida Times-Union, p. S-5, 29 July 2006
▶ go straight
to abandon a criminal lifestyle in favour of honesty UK, 1940- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 110, 1996
- [D]oing his usual bit about giving up nicking and going straight[.] — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 73, 2001
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