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Plural of straight

regular plural

The plural of straight is straights.

Forms of straight

Singularstraight /stɹeɪt/
Pluralstraights
Countablecountable

Straights in a sentence

  • My friends call straights "heteros".
  • You're scaring the straights, okay?1989, Ghostbusters II, spoken by Peter Venkman (Bill Murray)
  • We both had straights, but Jill had a flush draw: she was on a freeroll.From the entry freeroll
  • We both had straights, but Jill had a flush draw: she was freerolling me.From the entry freeroll
  • The standard male images exalted by both gays and straights I find anti-erotic.1984 December 29, Duncan Mitchel, “The Cult of Gay Machismo”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 9. From the entry antierotic

Meaning of straight

  1. adjective Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
  2. adjective Direct, undeviating.
  3. adjective Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.

Full definition of straight

Questions about the plural of straight

What is the plural of straight?
The plural of straight is straights.
Is straight countable?
Straight is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: straight (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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