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"(intransitive) To sit up straight, to stop hunching."
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"text": "1994, Mccook Daily Gazette, Jul 12, 1994, Mail Delivery Trying To Get Up To Speed\nThe Postal Service sent a special task force to straighten up the city's problems with a back-to-basics approach"
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