STRAIGHT-EDGE

Domain	Definition
Slang	Adjective. Source: Unknown. Definition: Philosophy of clean living characterized by abstinence from drugs, promiscuous sex, and/or animal products. Context: Used whenever punks interact, often when describing convictions or possible activities. Social Source: Punk. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)
	Noun a. Source: Began in early 1980's with the hardcore punk rock band, Minor Threat. Definition: A way of living where a person puts no toxins into their body.(i.e. no nicotine, caffeine, alcohol, etc.). Context: Used to describe a person who follows the straight-edge way of life and that particular lifestyle. Social Source: Punk rock subculture. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)
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Usage Frequency: STRAIGHT-EDGE

"STRAIGHT-EDGE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STRAIGHT-EDGE" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translation: STRAIGHT-EDGE

Language		Translations for "STRAIGHT-EDGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		rettelineal, retskinne, afretningsklods. (various references)

Dutch		rei (chorus, coir). (various references)

Esperanto		liniilo (ruler, straightedge). (various references)

French		règle � dresser. (various references)

Greek		κανόνας εύθυνσης. (various references)

Italian		regolo per squadrare. (various references)

Pig Latin		aight-edgestray

Portuguese		régua de traçar. (various references)

Russian		линейка (foot rule, foot-rule, rule, ruler, scale, straightedge, wagonette), правило (algorithm, bylaw, cannion, canon, elastic rule, law, lute, norm, regulation, rule). (various references)

Spanish		regla de comprobacion de superficies planas. (various references)

Vietnamese		thước thẳng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: STRAIGHT-EDGE

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	Direct Anagrams: straightedge.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-g-h-i-r-s-t-t"
	-2 letters: gadgetries, straighted, threadiest.
	-3 letters: aigrettes, draggiest, dreggiest, earthiest, heartiest, heritages, hesitated, hesitater, raggedest, resighted, shattered, staggered, tragedies.
	-4 letters: aigrette, ariettes, diethers, digester, disagree, dreggish, earthset, eggheads, gastight, gathered, gestated, greatest, grisette, hagrides, hardiest, headiest, headrest, hearties, hedgiest, heritage, hesitate, iterated, iterates, readiest, redigest, restaged, restated, retagged, retasted, rightest, saggered, seriated, shaggier, staggier, steadier.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-g-h-i-r-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: straightedges.
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Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

STRAIGHT-EDGE

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Anagrams: STRAIGHT-EDGE

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