straights

Noun

straight (plural straights)

1. Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
   • After four grueling laps, the race had come down to a sprint. Into the straight, although my legs were burning, I called on them for more, and they responded. On my inside the maroon singlet came with me, until it was just the two of us heading for the line.2009, Robert Newton, Runner, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 191
2. Five cards in sequence.
3. (colloquial) A heterosexual.
   • My friends call straights "heteros".

   Synonyms:

   hetero, breeder

4. (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
   • You live with straights who tell you you was king / Jump when your momma tell you anything1971, John Lennon, “How Do You Sleep?”, in Imagine

   Synonyms:

   basic bitch, bourgeois, L7, mainstreamer, mainstreamist, muggle, mundane, normal, normalfag, normaloid

5. (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.
   • A straight = a straighter = a straight cut, une cigarette en tabac de Virginie.][1923, J[oseph] Manchon, Le slang : lexique de l'anglais familier et vulgaire : précédé d'une étude sur la pronunciation et la grammaire populaires, p. 296

   Synonyms:

   straighter

6. A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.

   Antonyms:

   mixer

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