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Straight Shooter

Definition: Straight Shooter

Straight Shooter

Noun

1. A frank and honest person.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Straight Shooter

Synonyms: square shooter (n), straight arrow (n). (additional references)
Antonym: liar (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Straight Shooter

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Straight Shooter is a German movie about an ex-member of the French Foreign Legion who makes the German government responsible for the death of his family and goes on a killing spree to stop the service of an atomic plant.

The police is helpless and so the ex-instructor (Dennis Hopper) of the killer is brought to Germany to hunt the killer down.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Straight Shooter."

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Modern Usage: Straight Shooter

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Okay, Sparky, here's the deal: You wanna court the little lady, ya gotta be a straight shooter, do ya got it? (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements)

We had a chance to meet this young man, and boy that's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him. (Office Space; writing credit: Mike Judge)

Movie/TV Titles

Straight Shooter (1939)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Straight Shooter

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Theater & Movies

  

Music

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Straight Shooter

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

straight shooter

42
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Straight Shooter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-h-i-o-o-r-r-s-s-t-t-t"

-4 letters: straightest.

-5 letters: horsehairs, orthotists, shorthairs, straighter, strategist, throatiest, traitoress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Straight Shooter


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 74 72 61 69 67 68 74      53 68 6F 6F 74 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01010011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#116 &#114 &#97 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116 &#32 &#83 &#104 &#111 &#111 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0074 0072 0061 0069 0067 0068 0074      0053 0068 006F 006F 0074 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5386846775737486253748181867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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