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noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
noun a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
noun a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
originFrom Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Cognate with Scots straicht (“straight”), Dutch gestrekt (“stretched”), German gestreckt (“stretched”), Danish strakt (“stretched”), Faroese and Norn strekti (“stretched”), Icelandic…
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