straights
Cards in order
Straights is the plural of straight, covering its various noun senses.
In poker, straights are hands with five cards in sequential rank.
In casual speech, straights are heterosexual people, often from the perspective of gay communities: The bar welcomes everyone, but it's mostly straights on weekends.
Straights can also mean conventional or mainstream people generally.
Same suit, five cards
- royal flushTop-ranking poker hand
- full houseTriplet and pair combined
- four-of-a-kindAll cards matching rank
- handGrasping body part
cards · sequence · run · consecutive · draw · inside · outside · gutshot
Opposite-sex attracted people
- heterosOpposite-sex attracted people
- cisgenderBirth-sex-identified
- mainstreamDominant cultural current
- conventionalFollowing accepted practices
Constricted water passage
- channelPassage for transmission
- passageSegment of text
- straitConstricted marine passage
- inletWater extending into land
sound · fjord · waterway · bottleneck · shipping lane · navigable · maritime · Gibraltar
Pull to extend
- sectionDistinct divided part
- legAmbulatory limb
- runwayPaved path for planes
- trackPath or monitored route
lane · corridor · homestretch · backstretch · drag strip · raceway · causeway · avenue
Of small width
- righteousMorally good, justified
- conventionalFollowing accepted practices
- properSocially appropriate
- uprightVertical or morally sound
virtuous · moral · orthodox · conformist · traditional · clean-living · temperate · abstemious
flush
Same suit, five cards
- royal flushTop-ranking poker hand
- full houseTriplet and pair combined
- four-of-a-kindAll cards matching rank
hand · cards · sequence · run · consecutive · draw · inside · outside · gutshot · wheel
heterosexuals
Opposite-sex attracted people
- heterosOpposite-sex attracted people
- cisgenderBirth-sex-identified
- mainstreamDominant cultural current
conventional · normative · vanilla · allies · binary
narrows
Constricted water passage
inlet · sound · fjord · waterway · bottleneck · shipping lane · navigable · maritime · Gibraltar · Bosphorus
stretch
Pull to extend
track · lane · corridor · homestretch · backstretch · drag strip · raceway · causeway · avenue · boulevard
narrow
Of small width
- righteousMorally good, justified
- conventionalFollowing accepted practices
- properSocially appropriate
upright · virtuous · moral · orthodox · conformist · traditional · clean-living · temperate · abstemious · puritanical
- slot carsslot cars, chassis, controllers, lanes, motors
- railway tracksrails, steel rails, track bed, rail bed, railbed
straightsgays
Homosexual people
lesbians · homosexuals · queers · bisexuals · pansexuals
straightsflushes
Turns red suddenly
pairs · full houses · three of a kind · four of a kind · two pairs
- straight lineUndeviated continuous path
- straight aheadIn a line, unchanged direction
- go straightCease criminal activity
- straight faceNeutral, emotionless expression
- straighten upOrganize or stand erect
- straight upUndiluted and unchilled
straight, straighten, straightforward, straightaway, straightened, straightening, straighter, straightens, straightest