straight person
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2.0
- noun
- /streɪt ˈpɜrsən/
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heterosexual
- Are there gonna be any straight people there?
- gay and straight person
Being trans is as varied as being a straight person.
- Being trans is as varied as being a straight person.
- Are these people closer to gay people or are they closer to straight people?
- They kind of should have the same rights as straight people, right?
- And I love you like a straight person loves another straight person, buddy.
- Allies are what allow us like, even though it's difficult sometimes because there's a lot of straight people against like gay people.
- But it was on Sunday nights and the whole club was full of, I would say half gay people and the other half straight people, men and women.
- We're like, it's like you're going out of your way to call two straight people gay and what if we were gay?
- White people, straight people, Christians, it brings folks down.
- So straight people stop using the term partner.
- I don't know why I'm Nixon again, but I believe only straight people should swear.
- I think I'm pretty evolved, but I still believe that gay people shouldn't swear, but straight people should.
Examples
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Because straight people, yes, also have to deal with their trials and their faith and live the law of chastity.
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In theory, I think straight people have a "coming out" moment as well; it's just less dramatized.
Blog text (20) -
You know, we have straight people playing gay people all the time.
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It's great to have an evening with straight people.
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I never met a straight person in my whole life.
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I know a lot of straight people feel the way I do.
Blog text (24) -
In Greenwich Village, gay and straight people lived, if not together, then side by side.
Academic text (1997) -
But it was on Sunday nights and the whole club was full of, I would say half gay people and the other half straight people, men and women.
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Marsha remarked, "I think that, also, a lot of the straight people here actually have open minds."
Academic text (2006) -
At the party, I noticed a few straight people enjoying the music alongside their friends.
Synonyms
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3.4
A person who is attracted to people of the opposite sex
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4.2
A person attracted to people of the opposite sex
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8.3
A person who is sexually attracted to the opposite sex
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2.9
A person who is sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a heterosexual individual' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'straight' (sexually attracted to the opposite sex) with 'person' (a human individual); it follows a standard adjective + noun composition that B1 learners can parse. The construction is literal, non-idiomatic, and cross-linguistically common, so prior exposure is not required to understand it if the constituents are known.
Etymology
Straight person may come from the old use of straight to mean 'not bent' or 'direct', like a straight line. One popular story says people used straight to mean 'usual' or following the main path, so straight person came to mean someone 'attracted to the opposite sex'.