Dictionary

superstraight en · ADJ

Etymology

From super- + straight.

Meanings

1. Extremely straight (in various senses).
   • For that taped session I assembled a group of eight serious and articulate people, including one lesbian, one homosexual, a superstraight man and woman, and four people from the sexual middle. 1972, Martin Shepard, A Psychiatrist's Head, page 56:
   • There’s a wide selection of lighter fare to clear the palate. R.E. Neu’s “Remembrance of Tom Purdue” is a self-consciously giddy romp through the nexus of gay camp culture and super-straight he-man stereotypes. 2000, Karen Munro, “Uncanny Camp”, in The Lesbian Review of Books, volume 6, number 3, Review of The Ghost of Carmen Miranda and Other Spooky Gay and Lesbian Tales, page 20:
   • While a superstraight hairstyle may seem like an option only for brides whose hair is baby fine, it is in fact possible for brides with almost any hair texture to achieve that elegant flow of smooth and silky hair falling beautifully over their shoulders or down their back. 2012, Sharon Naylor, Del Blair Delaubenfels, Christy Weber, Bridal Bible: Inspiration for Planning Your Perfect Wedding, page 111:
   • A few years before, a friend in alternative filmmaking asked Eliza to do a bit role as a superstraight lady executive, and after coolly studying Eliza's hairdo, paid for her to go to the hairdresser and get a beehive. 1990, Michigan Quarterly Review, page 559:
   • I am super straight and I prefer you be too 2015, Chelsea Reynolds, quoting an anonymous Craigslist user, “‘I Am Super Straight and I Prefer You be Too’: Constructions of Heterosexual Masculinity in Online Personal Ads for ‘Straight’ Men Seeking Sex With Men”, in Journal of Communication Inquiry, volume 39, number 3, →DOI, page 213:

Forms