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straight_shooter
straight shooter
See also: straight-shooter
English
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Noun
straight shooter (plural straight shooters)
- (idiomatic) A person who is honest and forthright.
- 1996 Feb. 12, Katharine Q. Seelye, "Politics: Bob Dole—In No-Frills Message, Modesty Vies With Pride in Service," New York Times (retrieved 4 Sep 2012):
- The image he projects seems at home here in Iowa: the straight-shooter, the truth-teller, the unadorned Kansan from the prairie.
- 2006, Dec. 25, Dan Rather, "A Fond Farewell: Ed Bradley," Time:
- And those lucky enough to be around him always knew who he was too — a gentleman of extraordinary character, a straight shooter and a pioneering journalist destined to be remembered.
- 1996 Feb. 12, Katharine Q. Seelye, "Politics: Bob Dole—In No-Frills Message, Modesty Vies With Pride in Service," New York Times (retrieved 4 Sep 2012):
- (idiomatic) A person who is blunt, sometimes to the point of being harsh or offensive.
- 1966 Feb. 18, "The Administration: Unburdening Bill," Time:
- A 1934 journalism graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Fleming, who has a reputation as an abrasive straight shooter, was a newspaper and magazine correspondent before joining ABC in 1957.
- 1991 Sep. 11, Claire Smith, "On Baseball: Green Could Mean Luck for the Mets," New York Times (retrieved 4 Sep 2012):
- [B]aseball's equivalent of John Wayne, one Dallas Green, will likely come in, take some players by the scruffs of their necks, tell them to shut up and play in a fundamentally sound way. . . . The human boom box, the relentless straight shooter, will keep all comers more than well aware of where he stands.
- 2008, David Michaels and Tom Clancy, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, ISBN 9780425220146, p. 177 (Google preview):
- Keating . . . was an impatient taskmaster, but he was also a straight shooter who never held back a punch. . . . "Mitchell, you look like crap."
- 1966 Feb. 18, "The Administration: Unburdening Bill," Time:
- (informal, recreational drugs) A type of pipe used for smoking cocaine.
- 2007, Martin L. Stockton, Hustler's Greed, ISBN 9780595437221, p. 3 (Google preview):
- This homemade crack tool was known as a straight shooter, which sped up the effects of smoking rock cocaine allowing it to reach the lungs faster.
- 2007, Martin L. Stockton, Hustler's Greed, ISBN 9780595437221, p. 3 (Google preview):
Synonyms
- (person who is honest and forthright): square shooter
See also
References
- straight shooter at OneLook Dictionary Search