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straight red carded adj. The condition of a drinker who commits one grand offence and removes himself from proceedings. straight redded adj. The state of being drunk and issuing an immediate dismissal for one regrettable act.
straight shirttailed adj. The drunkenness of one who makes a hurried dash back for the thing confidently left behind. straight shootered adj. Reduced by drink to declaring every opinion plainly, particularly where tact would have been useful. straight sinused adj. Sharpened by drink into pursuing one grand plan through every available passage, anatomical or otherwise. straight supremacied adj. Loosened by drink into treating one's own preferences as the natural standard for everyone present. straight talked adj. Emboldened by drink to say the simple thing loudly, repeatedly, and without checking whether it helped. Duwane got straight talked and explained the seating arrangement to its owner. straight talkered adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a person delivering plain truths one syllable at a time. straight ticketed adj. Drunk and voting confidently for every name on one list, including the bartender's. straight timed adj. Drunk to the point where ordinary hours seem contractual and overtime appears personally insulting. straight tipped adj. Drunk enough to treat a hunch as reliable betting information and stake the evening on it. straight traded adj. Drunk past the point of maintaining a tidy account of what one claims and what one does. straight womanned adj. Drunk beyond supplying the calm, unimpressed response to another person's increasingly elaborate nonsense. straight-ahead jazzed adj. Drunk, with the result that every conversation acquires a brisk rhythm and no room for improvisation. straight-armed adj. Drunk to the extent of warding off assistance with both arms while requesting it immediately afterwards.
straight-arrowed adj. Having drunk more than sobriety permits while remaining offensively proper about the house rules. Shaquisha stayed straight-arrowed, apologising to the carpet after spilling tea.