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German
Etymology
Schnur (“cord, line”) + stracks (“directly”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃnuːɐ̯ˈʃtʁaks/
- 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.
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