a. and sb. Chiefly U.S. [attrib. use of the phrase straight-out: see STRAIGHT adv.]
A. adj. Unrestrained; going all lengths. In party politics = STRAIGHT a. 9.
1856. N. Y. Commercial Adv., May (Bartlett). We feel what a blessed thing it is just now to be a straight out Whig.
1856. Mrs. Stowe, Dred, II. xxxi. 337. Anne was indignant—with that straight out and generous indignation which belongs to women.
1859. Bartlett, Dict. Amer. (ed. 2), 454. Straight out, pure; genuine; unsophisticated.
1860. Keitt, in Congr. Globe, 1 Feb., 651/2. A straight-out nominee of your party.
1838. Bryce, Amer. Commw., II. l. II. 269. The electors … give little thought to the personal qualifications of the candidates, and vote the ‘straight out ticket.’ Ibid., VI. ciii. III. 481. The congregation of Plymouth Church were mostly ‘straight out’ Republicans.
1915. Morn. Post, 9 April, 8/5. That, says the Post, was a straightout policy of lawlessness and terrorism.
B. sb. One who votes a ‘straight’ party ticket, an uncompromising partisan.
1840. Nashville Whig, 17 Aug. (Thornton, Amer. Gloss.). The company of Straight-Outs … are the representatives of a hardy race of honest log cabin pioneers.
1872. Nation (N. Y.), 22 Aug., 113 (Cent.). Other Straight-outs, as they call themselves,… cannot take Grant and the Republicans.
