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Become a law-abiding person; abandon crime. For example, Once he got out on probation, he swore he would go straight . The use of straight in the sense of “honest” dates from the 1500s and probably alludes to the opposite of crooked , used in the sense of “dishonest” from the 13th century on.Advertisement
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