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straight A

or straight-A

adjective

  1. achieving or showing the highest grade or superior accomplishment, especially scholastically:

    a straight A report card.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of straight A1

First recorded in 1945–50

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Example Sentences

Kooper had always gotten straight A’s, despite a tendency to leave big assignments to the last minute.

Nagar’s son fell in love with math at an early age, and has earned straight A’s in every math class he’s ever taken, Nagar said.

Funke would have been remembered as a pretty freshman or a straight-A student by friends and probably forgotten by most.

First reports detail the shooter as Sergei Gordeyev, a young man around 15 years old, and reported to be a straight-A student.

I think viewers assumed Daphne was a virgin because she was a ‘good girl’; a straight-A student, etc.

But being a straight-A student doesn't coincide with sexuality.

She looks very much like the straight-A student she indeed had always been.

It was a long straight-a-way, and they could leap many feet in a single jump.

Well, geeve-a me youse-a da hand and Eesa take-a you straight-a da heem.

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