straight shooter
Noun
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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, "[http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2019341_2017103_2016954,00.html 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, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,898997,00.html 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, [http://books.google.ca/books?id=Q5JcpHKpTjUC&pg=PA177&lpg=PA177&dq=%22straight+shooter%22+subject:%22fiction%22&source=bl&ots=_v4UHgTyYu&sig=1NW3lRib0KNFgBuFQK6vpHxMPOo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3YBGUP2kC8jAyAGp3IGACA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwATgy#v=onepage&q=%22straight%20shooter%22%20subject%3A%22fiction%22&f=false 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, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,898997,00.html 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, [http://books.google.ca/books?id=x_qlQcUwfvwC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=%22straight+shooter%22+subject:%22fiction%22&source=bl&ots=HZNXO3R_5d&sig=2FU1PF_XWxt99fxTDzpIUSduCxk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JX9GUIv4Ba_8yAHHgoCgDA&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBTgU#v=onepage&q=%22straight%20shooter%22%20subject%3A%22fiction%22&f=false 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, [http://books.google.ca/books?id=x_qlQcUwfvwC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=%22straight+shooter%22+subject:%22fiction%22&source=bl&ots=HZNXO3R_5d&sig=2FU1PF_XWxt99fxTDzpIUSduCxk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JX9GUIv4Ba_8yAHHgoCgDA&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBTgU#v=onepage&q=%22straight%20shooter%22%20subject%3A%22fiction%22&f=false p. 3 (Google preview)]:
- (person who is honest and forthright) square shooter
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