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straight shooter

 
Dictionary: straight shooter   (strāt'shū'tĭng) adj.

n. Informal
One who is honest and forthright.

straight-shooting straight'-shoot'ing
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adjective

  1. Having or marked by uprightness in principle and action: good, honest, honorable, incorruptible, righteous, true, upright, upstanding. Idioms: on theup-and-upup and up. See honest/dishonest.
  2. Manifesting honesty and directness, especially in speech: candid, direct, downright, forthright, frank, honest, ingenuous, man-to-man, open, plainspoken, straight, straightforward, straight-out, unreserved. Informal straight-from-the-shoulder. See clear/unclear, show/hide.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a frank and honest person
  Synonyms: square shooter, straight arrow


Wikipedia: Straight Shooter
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Straight Shooter
Directed by Thomas Bohn
Starring Dennis Hopper,
Heino Ferch
Release date(s) 1999
Running time 88 min.
Country Germany
Language English / German

Straight Shooter is a 1999 German movie about an ex-member of the French Foreign Legion who makes the German government responsible for the death of his family and goes on a killing spree to stop the service of an atomic plant.

The police are helpless and so the ex-instructor (Dennis Hopper) of the killer is brought to Germany to hunt the killer down.

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