straight shooter

1. 1.

   a frank and honest person

   Synonymssquare shooterstraight arrow

   Broadergood person

Questions about straight shooter

What does straight shooter mean?

straight shooter means "a frank and honest person".

What is another word for straight shooter?

Close synonyms include square shooter, straight arrow. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is straight shooter a common word?

straight shooter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.