schnurstracks

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃnuːɐ̯ˈʃtʁaks/
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Hyphenation: schnur‧stracks

Adverb

schnurstracks

(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

Further reading

“schnurstracks” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“schnurstracks” in Duden online
“schnurstracks” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

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