schnurstracks

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
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Adverb

schnurstracks

  1. straightway, straight, directly (going somewhere immediately and on the shortest way possible)

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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