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.

Further reading

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