straighter

Pluralstraighters

1. 1
   adjective

   Comparative form of straight.

   The new highway is straighter and faster than the winding coastal route.

   After the carpenter planed the board, its edge was much straighter than before.

   Note

   A regular -er comparative, paired with the superlative straightest, it can grade every sense of the adjective: a straighter line, a straighter bat in cricket, a straighter answer from someone who has stopped evading. Keep it apart from the cigarette noun, which shares the spelling but takes a plural, straighters. The adjective never takes a plural.

2. 2
   nounslangcountable

   A cigarette made with tobacco rather than marijuana.

   After he quit weed, he reached for a straighter whenever he needed a smoke.

   She passed me a straighter and lit one for herself.

   Similarstraight

   Note

   Smokers' slang that sorts cigarettes by what is inside the paper. Joseph Manchon's Le slang (1923), a French guide to familiar and vulgar English, sets straighter beside straight and straight cut and explains all three as a Virginia-tobacco cigarette. It is an ordinary countable noun (a straighter, two straighters) and belongs to casual talk. In neutral writing, cigarette says the same thing without the slang.

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