straight shooter

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straight shooter

noun straight shooters · straight-shooter

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

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@misc{straight_shooter_2026,
  title = {straight shooter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/straight%20shooter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}