STRAIGHT UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does straight up mean? 

• STRAIGHT UP (adjective)
  The adjective STRAIGHT UP has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: STRAIGHT UP used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRAIGHT UP (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Context example:

I like my martinis straight up

Similar:

pure (free of extraneous elements of any kind)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

I would have gone straight up and told him so, only I thought it was but fair to you to take your opinion first.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He gazed straight up into the gray sky and knew that he was hungry.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I stood straight up against the wall, my heart still going like a sledge-hammer, but with a ray of hope now shining in my bosom.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

At the same instant Buck peered out where the spruce-bough lodge had been and saw what made his hair leap straight up on his neck and shoulders.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But Meg looked straight up in her husband's eyes, and said, "I will!" with such tender trust in her own face and voice that her mother's heart rejoiced and Aunt March sniffed audibly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Near to the pathway lay a long clump of greenery, and from behind this there stuck straight up into the air four human legs clad in parti-colored hosen, yellow and black.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I kissed Miss Mills's hand; and we all seemed, to my thinking, to go straight up to the seventh heaven.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And even he could not repress a start and an involuntary bristling of hair along his back when she suddenly leaped, without warning, straight up in the air, at the same time emitting a long and most terrible squall.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Tingling with anger and shame, I went straight up that stair, the cards in my hand, and I taxed him with this lowest and meanest of all the crimes to which a villain could descend.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meanwhile the princess was eagerly waiting till her deliverer should come back; and had a road made leading up to her palace all of shining gold; and told her courtiers that whoever came on horseback, and rode straight up to the gate upon it, was her true lover; and that they must let him in: but whoever rode on one side of it, they must be sure was not the right one; and that they must send him away at once.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)