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straight up adjective- used of an alcoholic drink or a drug, undiluted US, 1973
- Scotch straight up and a rum and Coke for me. — Tin Men, 1987
- If somebody coming in from Jersey City, you give ’em a straight-up ounce ’cause they can get pretty good stuff right in town. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 180, 1992
- a prison sentence, without reduction for good behaviour or other factors US
- He was an orphan and he had just done a two-year “bit” “straight up,” his fourth, two months before. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 36, 1969
- I get busted again, I do five years straight up and not at one of those country-club joints either. — Elmore Leonard, Riding the Rap, p. 78, 1995
- pure, unadulterated US
- We’re gonna play straight-up rock and roll. — Empire Records, 1995
- used of a person, especially a girl, thin US
- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
- honest US
- “Hobbes straight up with me.” — Jess Mowry, Six Out Seven, p. 17, 1993
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