straightaway
adverb
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L200270 on Wikidata ↗noun
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L328593 on Wikidata ↗adjective
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L340822 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˌstɹeɪtəˈweɪ/ / /ˈstɹeɪtəˌweɪ/
adj
- Extending into the distance in a straight line.
adv
- Alternative form of straight away (“at once; immediately”).
“When I have completed a manuscript, if I lay it away in a drawer or pigeon-hole, it lies there quietly enough, and my mind seems wholly discharged of it. But if I mail it, I straightaway find myself tormented with "staircase wit" in the shape of emendations.”
“The Boys Next Door […] were as likely a prospect as the Australian new wave was going to throw up, could have been and in many ways were the next cab off the rank after the Saints and Radio Birdman, Australia's twin prophets of punk.”
noun
- Alternative form of straightway (“A straight section of a racetrack.”).