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ˈstraight-out, a. and n. Chiefly U.S.
[attrib. use of the phrase straight-out: see straight adv.]
A. adj. Unrestrained; going all lengths. Also straightforward, unqualified, genuine. In party politics = straight a. 9.
1848W. Armstrong Stocks 9 The Stock is to be delivered and paid for upon a certain day—these are sometimes termed straight out contracts. 1856N.Y. Commercial Adv. May (Bartlett), We feel what a blessed thing it is just now to be a straight out Whig. 1856Mrs. Stowe Dred II. xxxi. 337 Anne was indignant—with that straight out and generous indignation which belongs to women. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 454 Straight out, pure; genuine; unsophisticated. 1860Keitt in Congr. Globe 1 Feb. 651/2 A straight-out nominee of your party. 1873‘Mark Twain’ Gilded Age xxv. 228 Buying committees for straight-out cash on delivery. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. ii. l. II. 269 The electors..give little thought to the personal qualifications of the candidates, and vote the ‘straight out ticket.’ Ibid. vi. ciii. III. 481 The congregation of Plymouth Church were mostly ‘straight out’ Republicans. 1912T. Dreiser Financier 57, I don't like it as well as I do the straight-out brokerage business. 1915Morn. Post 9 Apr. 8/5 That, says the Post, was a straightout policy of lawlessness and terrorism. 1947A. P. Gaskell Big Game 118 It's not just a straight-out romance? 1973E. S. Gardner Case Postponed Murder (1977) viii. 106 It isn't any trap. It's a straight-out business proposition.
B. n. One who votes a ‘straight’ party ticket, an uncompromising partisan.
1840Nashville Whig 17 Aug. (Thornton Amer. Gloss.), The company of Straight-Outs..are the representatives of a hardy race of honest log cabin pioneers. 1872Nation (N.Y.) 22 Aug. 113 (Cent.), Other Straight-outs, as they call themselves,..cannot take Grant and the Republicans. |