Straight man may refer to:
- Straight Man, a 1997 novel by Richard Russo
- Straight man (stock character), a member of a double act who plays a stooge, feed, or comic foil (an actor not meant to be funny who is surprised by, or is the object of, a joke by the comic) in theatrical comedy
- A heterosexual male
Famous quotes containing the words straight and/or man:
“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Then let us pray that come it may,
As come it will for a that,
That sense and worth, oer a the earth,
May bear the gree, an a that.
For a that, and a that,
Its comin yet, for a that
That man to man, the warld oer,
Shall brithers be for a that.”
—Robert Burns (17591796)
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