schnurstracks

German

Etymology

Schnur (“cord, line”) +‎ stracks (“directly”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃnuːɐ̯ˈʃtʁaks/

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• Hyphenation: schnur‧stracks

Adverb

schnurstracks

1. (colloquial) straightway, straight, directly (going somewhere immediately and by the shortest way possible)

   Synonym: geradewegs

Synonyms

• While the dated simplex stracks is synonymous with sofort and thus chiefly temporal, schnurstracks also has a strongly spatial dimension.

Related terms

• schnurgerade
• strack

Further reading

• “schnurstracks”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “schnurstracks” in Duden online
• “schnurstracks” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon