Usually means: Not curved or bent; direct.
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General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. straight: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. straight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. straight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. straight: Collins English Dictionary
  5. straight: Vocabulary.com
  6. Straight, straight: Wordnik
  7. straight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Straight, straight: Wiktionary
  9. straight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. straight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. straight: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. straight: Dictionary.com
  13. straight (adj.1), straight (adj.2), straight (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. straight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Straight (magazine), Straight (play), Straight (poker), Straight (racing), Straight, Straight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Straight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. straight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. straight: Rhymezone
  19. straight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. straight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. straight: Free Dictionary
  22. Straight, straight: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. straight: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. straight: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. straight: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. straight: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Spirits Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Straight: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. straight: Legal dictionary
  4. Straight: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. straight: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. straight: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. straight: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. straight: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. straight, straight, straight, straight, straight, straight, straight, straight: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. straight: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Sports (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Straight: Dan's Poker
  2. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Straight: Sports Definitions
  6. Straight: Guide For Gambling Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
adjective:  (of a path, trajectory, etc.) Direct, undeviating.
adjective:  Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
adjective:  (cricket) Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
adjective:  (engineering, of an internal-combustion engine) Having all cylinders in a single straight line; in-line.
adjective:  Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
adjective:  Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
adjective:  Serious rather than comedic.
adjective:  In proper order; as it should be.
adjective:  In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.
adjective:  (tennis) Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
adjective:  (US, politics) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
adjective:  (US, politics) Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.
adjective:  (colloquial) Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable.
adjective:  (colloquial) Heterosexual.
adjective:  (colloquial, of a romantic or sexual relation) Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people).
adjective:  (slang, sex work) Related to conventional sexual intercourse.
adjective:  (colloquial) Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.
adjective:  (fashion) Not plus size; thin.
adjective:  (rare, now chiefly religion) Strait; narrow.
adjective:  (obsolete) Stretched out; fully extended.
adjective:  (slang) Thorough; utter; unqualified.
adjective:  Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
adjective:  (telegraphy, historical, of a telegram) Sent at a full rate for immediate delivery; being a fast telegram.
adjective:  (sciences, mathematics) Concerning the property allowing the parallel transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain as such throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic).
adjective:  (informal, of a person) OK, all right, fine; in a good state or situation.
adjective:  (informal, of people, reciprocal) On good terms.
adverb:  Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
adverb:  Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
adverb:  Continuously; without interruption or pause.
adverb:  Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
noun:  Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
noun:  (poker) Five cards in sequence.
noun:  (colloquial) A heterosexual.
noun:  (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
noun:  (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.
noun:  A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
noun:  A cat that has straight ears despite belonging to a breed that often has folded ears.
verb:  (transitive) To straighten.
noun:  A surname.

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