straight shooter

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who is honest and forthright. idiomatic
    — The image he projects seems at home here in Iowa: the straight-shooter, the truth-teller, the unadorned Kansan from the prairie.
  2. A person who is blunt, sometimes to the point of being harsh or offensive. idiomatic
    — 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.
  3. A type of pipe used for smoking cocaine. informal
    — 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.

词形变化

straight shooters plural straight-shooter alternative
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