Straight-up Definition

adjective

Truthful, honest, serious.

Because it doesn’t actually produce anything, some knock Rockstar as a straight-up patent troll. - Robert McMillan, How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads, Wired, May 21, 2012
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adverb

Truthfully, honestly, seriously.

She told me straight up that she did not want to go.
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(of an alcoholic drink) Chilled (stirred or shaken over ice) and served in a cocktail glass, with no ice.
Gimmie a margarita, straight up.
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Straight-up Sentence Examples

  • Remove the ribbon cable from the laser unit to the board by gently pulling the ribbon straight up.

  • The flowers are made of five petals that shoot straight up from the bloom's base.

  • Pull straight up to finish just right of a large clump of heather.

  • Remove the ribbon cable from the laser unit to the board by gently pulling the ribbon cable from the laser unit to the board by gently pulling the ribbon straight up.

  • Jim the horse had seen these spires, also, and his ears stood straight up with fear, while Dorothy and Zeb held their breaths in suspense.

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