straight-outadj.n.
Chiefly U.S.
A. adj.
Unrestrained; going all lengths. Also straightforward, unqualified, genuine. In party politics = straight adj. 9.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [adjective] > genuine, real
soothc888
soothlyc888
soothfastc1175
germanec1384
truea1398
sickera1400
upright?a1500
uncounterfeita1542
righteous1543
legitimate1551
truepennya1556
arrant1570
uncounterfeited1571
real1573
current1578
genuinal1599
unforged1610
unpretended1611
legitime1614
unabusinga1628
Lubish1632
genuine1639
undissembled1651
undissimulate1652
ingenuine1661
infallacious1677
real live1684
unfalsified1688
unmistaken1694
pukka1776
undissimulated1776
unassumed1818
uncynical1824
Simon Pure1834
sure-enough1837
unsimulated1840
straight-out1848
true blue1852
veritable1862
really (and) truly1864
authentic1868
true-metal1868
kosher1896
twenty-four carat1900
honest to goodness1905
echt1916
dinky-di1918
McCoy1928
twenty-two carat1962
right1969
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [adjective] > type of adherent
stout1586
straight-out1848
card-carrying1911
majoritarian1918
1848 W. Armstrong Stocks 9 The Stock is to be delivered and paid for upon a certain day—these are sometimes termed straight out contracts.
1856 N.Y. Commercial Advertiser May We feel what a blessed thing it is just now to be a straight out Whig.
1856 H. B. Stowe Dred II. xxxi. 337 Anne was indignant—with that straight out and generous indignation which belongs to women.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 454 Straight out, pure; genuine; unsophisticated.
1860 Keitt in Congr. Globe 1 Feb. 651/2 A straight-out nominee of your party.
1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xxv. 228 Buying committees for straight-out cash on delivery.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. l. 269 The electors..give little thought to the personal qualifications of the candidates, and vote the ‘straight out ticket.’
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. ciii. 481 The congregation of Plymouth Church were mostly ‘straight out’ Republicans.
1912 T. Dreiser Financier 57 I don't like it as well as I do the straight-out brokerage business.
1915 Morning Post 9 Apr. 8/5 That, says the Post, was a straightout policy of lawlessness and terrorism.
1947 ‘A. P. Gaskell’ Big Game 118 It's not just a straight-out romance?
1973 E. S. Gardner Case of 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.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > attachment to party > one attached to party > stout or uncompromising
true blue1647
henchman1835
straight-out1840
stalwart1881
flat-foot1887
1840 Nashville Whig 17 Aug. in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) The company of Straight-Outs..are the representatives of a hardy race of honest log cabin pioneers.
1872 Nation (N.Y.) 22 Aug. 113 Other Straight-outs, as they call themselves,..cannot take Grant and the Republicans.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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