ADVERB
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without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith
Come here now!
he answered immediately
found an answer straightaway
How To Use straight off In A Sentence
- They searched for his body, handlining with grappling hooks, setting gill nets straight offshore and hauling seine. AMAGANSETT
- And because the farm is a business, 17.5% of each week's rent comes straight off the top for the VATman.
- He came straight off the sandlots of Baltimore to become one of the game's great right fielders.
- He knew it straight off: a buff folder with a scrawl of previous recipients on the front and a few loose-leaf typed reports inside. The Priest
- The wind had turned easterly, blowing straight off the Swedish coast. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
- A thirtyish woman, straight off the set of Sex and the City, turns and looks at you like you asked her if she wanted to swap underwear. Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse?
- It was cold there, damn cold, with a wind blowing straight off Dartmoor into our front room.
- Then it was straight off to the darkroom to run off photographs of our esteemed educators in various sizes.
- You can't expect to be accepted in a new town right/straight off the bat.
- But it's astonishing to enter a space, straight off the street, that is so long relative to its width, and whose height is emphasised by vertical slashes of windows.
