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Meaning: (idiomatic)A person who ishonestandforthright.Synonym:straight talker1996February 12, Katharine Q. Seelye, “Politics: Bob Dole—In No-Frills Message, Modesty Vies With Pride in Service”, inNew York Times, retrieved4 September 2012:The image he projects seems at home here in Iowa: thestraight-shooter, the truth-teller, the unadorned Kansan from the prairie.2006December 25,Dan Rather, “A Fond Farewell: Ed Bradley”, inTime:And those lucky enough to be around him always knew who he was too — a gentleman of extraordinary character, astraight shooterand a pioneering journalist destined to be remembered.; (idiomatic)A person who isblunt, sometimes to the point of beingharshoroffensive.1966February 18, “The Administration: Unburdening Bill”, inTime:A 1934 journalism graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Fleming, who has a reputation as an abrasivestraight shooter, was a newspaper and magazine correspondent before joining ABC in 1957.1991September 11, Claire Smith, “On Baseball: Green Could Mean Luck for the Mets”, inNew York Times, retrieved4 September 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 relentlessstraight shooter, will keep all comers more than well aware of where he stands.2008,David Michaels,Tom Clancy,Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon,→ISBN,page177:Keating . . . was an impatient taskmaster, but he was also astraight shooterwho never held back a punch. . . . "Mitchell, you look like crap."; (informal,recreational drugs)A type ofpipeused for smokingcocaine.2007, Martin L. Stockton,Hustler's Greed,→ISBN,page 3:This homemade crack tool was known as astraight shooter, which sped up the effects of smoking rock cocaine allowing it to reach the lungs faster.
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