Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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alt. 1 (context idiomatic English) A person who is honest and forthright. 2 (context idiomatic English) A person who is blunt, sometimes to the point of being harsh or offensive. 3 (context informal recreational drugs English) A type of pipe used for smoking cocaine. n. 1 (context idiomatic English) A person who is honest and forthright. 2 (context idiomatic English) A person who is blunt, sometimes to the point of being harsh or offensive. 3 (context informal recreational drugs English) A type of pipe used for smoking cocaine.
WordNet
n. a frank and honest person [syn: square shooter, straight arrow] [ant: liar]
Wikipedia
Straight Shooter is a 1999 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 a nuclear plant.
The police are helpless and so the ex-instructor ( Dennis Hopper) of the killer is brought to Germany to hunt the killer down.
Straight Shooter is the second studio album by British supergroup Bad Company. The album was released in April 1975, a month after the release of the single " Good Lovin' Gone Bad" and four months before the album's second single " Feel Like Makin' Love" (see 1975 in music).
The album reached number 3 in the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200. It was certified gold (500,000 units sold) by the Recording Industry Association of America a month after its release.
Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke revealed on In the Studio (which devoted an episode to Straight Shooter) that the track "Shooting Star" (which told the story of a rock star who died early) was lyrically inspired by the drug and alcohol-related deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison.
Straight Shooter is the fourth studio album by James Gang, which was released in July 1972 on ABC Records in the US and Probe Records in the UK. This is the first James Gang album recorded after their guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist, Joe Walsh left the band and went on to form the band, Barnstorm. The remaining members, Dale Peters (bass guitar and backing vocals) and Jim Fox (drums and organ) were joined on this album by ex- Bush singer Roy Kenner and guitarist Domenic Troiano. Bush, whose lone album was released in the United States by ABC's subsidiary label Dunhill Records, had broken up at about the same time as Walsh left the James Gang, so Kenner's and Troiano's joining Peters and Fox effectively merged the remnants of the two bands.
Straight Shooter may refer to:
- Straight Shooter (Bad Company album), 1975
- Straight Shooter (James Gang album), 1972
- Straight Shooter (Band), a German hard rock band
- "Straight Shooter", a song by The Mamas & the Papas from the album If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
- Straight Shooter (1939 film), an American film directed by Sam Newfield
- Straight Shooter (1999 film), a German film directed by Thomas Bohn
Straight Shooter is a 1939 American film directed by Sam Newfield.
Usage examples of "straight shooter".
I remember how Dad always liked you for your brains, and he always said you were a straight shooter.
He's a straight shooter, he's knowledgeable--or at least he's got a great staff--he's articulate and polished, and he's not afraid to take on the big boys on their own turf.
And sitting next to Richie on the steps leading up to the seminary, he remembered how Georgie's eyes lit up when the paper boat came out right, and how good that look had made him feel, like Georgie thought he was a real hot shit, a straight shooter, the guy who could do it until it got done.