straight-away

straight·a·way

[streyt-uh-wey]
adjective
1.
straight onward, without turn or curve, as a racecourse.
noun
2.
a straightaway course or part.
adverb
3.
immediately; right away.

Origin:
1870–75; from phrase straight away

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straightaway (ˌstreɪtəˈweɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adv
1.  at once
 
n
2.  the US word for straight

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Straight-away is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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