English edit

Etymology edit

super- +‎ straight

Adjective edit

superstraight (comparative more superstraight, superlative most superstraight)

  1. Extremely straight (in various senses).
    • 1972, Martin Shepard, A Psychiatrist's Head, page 56:
      For that taped session I assembled a group of eight serious and articulate people, including one lesbian, one homosexual, a superstraight man and woman, and four people from the sexual middle.
    • 1990, Michigan Quarterly Review, page 559:
      A few years before, a friend in alternative filmmaking asked Eliza to do a bit role as a superstraight lady executive, and after coolly studying Eliza's hairdo, paid for her to go to the hairdresser and get a beehive.
    • 2000, Karen Munro, “Uncanny Camp”, in The Lesbian Review of Books, volume 6, number 3, Review of The Ghost of Carmen Miranda and Other Spooky Gay and Lesbian Tales, page 20:
      There’s a wide selection of lighter fare to clear the palate. R.E. Neu’s “Remembrance of Tom Purdue” is a self-consciously giddy romp through the nexus of gay camp culture and super-straight he-man stereotypes.
    • 2012, Sharon Naylor, Del Blair Delaubenfels, Christy Weber, Bridal Bible: Inspiration for Planning Your Perfect Wedding, page 111:
      While a superstraight hairstyle may seem like an option only for brides whose hair is baby fine, it is in fact possible for brides with almost any hair texture to achieve that elegant flow of smooth and silky hair falling beautifully over their shoulders or down their back.
    • 2015, Chelsea Reynolds, quoting an anonymous Craigslist user, “‘I Am Super Straight and I Prefer You be Too’: Constructions of Heterosexual Masculinity in Online Personal Ads for ‘Straight’ Men Seeking Sex With Men”, in Journal of Communication Inquiry, volume 39, number 3, →DOI, page 213:
      I am super straight and I prefer you be too