English Explanatory Dictionary

straightwash

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To interpret or present a queer figure, relationship, or situation as exclusively heterosexual.

Word forms

straightwash straightwashes straightwashing straightwashed straight-wash

Etymology

From straight + wash, by analogy with pinkwash.

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