strack

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See also: Strack and sträck

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German strac (straight), from Old High German *strac (attested in framstrac), from Proto-Germanic *strakkaz (straight), from Proto-Indo-European *streg-, *treg- (stiff, rigid). Cognate with Dutch strak. More at stretch.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʃtʁak/
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  • Rhymes: -ak

Adjective

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strack (strong nominative masculine singular stracker, comparative stracker, superlative am stracksten)

  1. (archaic or dialectal) straight, taut
    Synonyms: steif, straff, stramm
  2. (colloquial) drunk

Usage notes

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  • Now chiefly used in the figurative sense “drunk” or in the adverbial form stracks (directly). The literal sense is quite rare but still widely understood. It is commonest referring to people’s posture, chiefly with the verbs liegen, sitzen, stehen, sometimes also in the combination strack und steif.

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Further reading

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Scots

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Etymology

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Uncertain. Perhaps a variant of strick, or from Old English stræc (strict).

Adjective

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strack (comparative mair strack, superlative maist strack)

  1. strict