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7 ADJ [ADJ n] A straight choice or a straight fight involves only two people or things. □  It's a straight choice between low-paid jobs and no jobs.

8 ADJ If you describe someone as straight , you mean that they are normal and conventional, for example in their opinions and in the way they live. □  Dorothy was described as a very straight woman, a very strict Christian who was married to her job.

9 ADJ [usu v-link ADJ ] If you describe someone as straight , you mean that they are heterosexual rather than homosexual. [INFORMAL ] □  His sexual orientation was a lot more gay than straight. ● N‑COUNT Straight is also a noun. □  …a standard of sexual conduct that applies equally to gays and straights.

10 ADJ [ADJ n] A straight drink, especially an alcoholic drink, has not had another liquid such as water added to it. □  …a large straight whiskey without ice.

11 N‑COUNT On a racetrack, a straight is a section of the track that is straight, rather than curved. □  I went to overtake him on the back straight on the last lap.

12 → see also home stretch

13 PHRASE If you get something straight , you make sure that you understand it properly or that someone else does. [SPOKEN ] □  Let's get things straight. I didn't lunch with her.

14 PHRASE If a criminal is going straight , they are no longer involved in crime.

15 PHRASE If something keeps people on the straight and narrow , it helps to keep them living an honest or healthy life. □  All her efforts to keep him on the straight and narrow have been rewarded.

16a straight face → see face ➊

17to set the record straight → see record

strai ght a r|row (straight arrows ) N‑COUNT [oft N n] A straight arrow is someone who is very traditional, honest, and moral. [mainly AM ] □  …a well-scrubbed, straight-arrow group of young people.

strai ght awa y also straightaway ADV [ADV with v] If you do something straight away , you do it immediately and without delay. □  I should go and see a doctor straight away.

straight|en /stre I t ^ə n/ (straightens , straightening , straightened )

1 VERB If you straighten something, you make it tidy or put it in its proper position. □ [V n] She sipped her coffee and straightened a picture on the wall. □ [V n] …tidying, straightening cushions and organising magazines.

2 VERB If you are standing in a relaxed or slightly bent position and then you straighten , you make your back or body straight and upright. □ [V ] The three men straightened and stood waiting. ● PHRASAL VERB Straighten up means the same as straighten . □ [V P ] He straightened up and slipped his hands in his pockets.

3 VERB If you straighten something, or it straightens , it becomes straight. □ [V n] Straighten both legs until they are fully extended. □ [V ] The road straightened and we were on a plateau. ● PHRASAL VERB Straighten out means the same as straighten . □ [V P n] No one would dream of straightening out the knobbly spire at Empingham Church. □ [V P ] The road twisted its way up the mountain then straightened out for the last two hundred yards. [Also V n P ]

▸  straighten out

1 PHRASAL VERB If you straighten out a confused situation, you succeed in getting it organized and tidied up. □ [V P n] He would make an appointment with him to straighten out a couple of things. □ [V n P ] My sister had come in with her calm common sense and straightened them out.

2 → see straighten 3