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straight-up
adjective as in plumb
adjective as in steep
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adjective as in vertical
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adverb as in over
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Example Sentences
I think people like those stories told straight-up, [David] Fincher-style.
Being there with a company of American infantry was dangerous enough; going there on your own seemed like straight-up suicide.
But if you ask the American public a straight up question—“Do you support amnesty for illegal immigrants?”
The straight-up fear of a world in which disco singles consistently topping the charts was the new normal.
Perhaps he is straight-up obsessed with former American Idol host Paula Abdul.
She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.
It was half-past seven when we got back to the house, so we all went straight up to our rooms to dress for dinner.
On his chest was a great inkoos with one eye covered, and on his back a hut with trees growing straight up into the air from it.
There's a little one inside—so narrow and twisted, Jim, that even I can hardly walk straight up it but have to go sidewise.
We had no more than got fairly between the straight-up-and-down walls of it than Piegan halted us with a warning hand.
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On this page you'll find 61 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to straight up, such as: perpendicular, straight, upright, straight-up, up-and-down, and vertical.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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