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straighten
verb- to bribe someone US, 1923
- — John Gosling, The Ghost Squad, 1959
- to avenge someone UK
A part of TEDDY BOY - — The Observer, 1 March 1959
- to produce drug intoxication in someone US, 1958
- Red brought the eighteen dollars out of his pocket with his left hand. “You straight man, just straighten me.” — Herbert Simmons, Corner Boy, p. 117, 1957
- Joan told me you could straighten me out. — Morton Cooper, High School Confidential, p. 78, 1958
- One bag’s not enough to straighten me. — Jeremy Larner and Ralph Tefferteller, The Addict in the Street, p. 233, 1964
- Then James Fox came in and said he had his works and that he wanted Johnny to straighten him. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 118, 1965
- But when I make that big sting, I’ll straighten you / If you’ll save me a little on the cotton. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 78, 1976
▶ straighten out a curve
to enter a curve driving too fast and leave the road US- — American Speech, p. 272, December 1962: “The language of traffic policemen”
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