straight up

adverb

Truthfully; honestly.

“She straight up hates him.”

Similar
upstraightpure
Opposite
on the rocks
OriginMiddle English streight up →
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Meanings

adverbstraight up (not comparable)
  1. informalnot comparableTruthfully; honestly.
  2. informalnot comparableUnambiguously; bluntly; plainly and directly.

    She straight up hates him.

    3 more examples

    She told me straight up that she didn't want to go, then surprised me by coming.

    "You lied. Straight up lied to me to my face. I thought we were better than that, Nickey. I asked you if you were sleeping with him, if you two were serious. You said no."

    2008 March 25, La Jill Hunt, No More Drama, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 108

    "It took a while though," he lied straight up to his brother. I knew damn well that if he could read minds, then his brother could too, but I guessed he wouldn't have wanted to.

    2020 November 24, Eileen Aiyana Taylor, The Vampire Peasant: A Sinister Heart Novel, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
  3. not comparableslangTo the utmost degree; really.

    Wow, this food is straight up delicious.

  4. not comparableOf an alcoholic drink, chilled (stirred or shaken over ice) and strained before being served in a cocktail glass, with no ice.

    Gimme a margarita, straight up.

    1 more example

    Connoisseurs may prefer to savour their dram of single malt straight up. But, for beverage companies, that's not where the growth is.

    2025 December 27, “Cocktails in a can are the new frontier for drooping drinks giants”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18

    Synonyms: up, straight, up

adjectivestraight up (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOpen, frank.

    I support what you are attempting to do, but quite frankly, I think we should be straight up about what some of the consequences are.

    1984, Joe Biden, “Women in Development: Looking to the Future”, in parliamentary debates (United States Senate)
  2. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of straight-up.

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbOf an alcoholic drink, chilled (stirred or shaken over ice) and strained before being served in a cocktail glass, with no ice.

Similar
upstraightup

antonym(s) of “alcoholic drink”

Opposite
on the rocks

More synonyms by meaning

adjective(of an alcoholic drink) stirred or shaken with ice, but served without it

Similar
pure
Also see
completelyfair dinkumfor realsieshonestly

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishstreight up“straight, erect, not curved or crooked, direct, honest”
  2. Englishstraight up

From Middle English streight up (“straight, erect, not curved or crooked, direct, honest”), equivalent to straight + up.

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Translations

Spanish frío y / pero sin hielo
  • frío y / pero sin hielodrink
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APA

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“straight up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/straight%20up. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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