straight up

1. 1.

   (of an alcoholic drink) stirred or shaken with ice, but served without it

   “I like my martinis straight up”

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   colloquialism

Questions about straight up

What does straight up mean?

straight up means "(of an alcoholic drink) stirred or shaken with ice, but served without it".

Is straight up a common word?

straight up 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.