What does straight-wash mean?

straight-wash

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English

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"The promotional tweet also features the words “A romance overwhelming in its intensity, a heart that swells until it has to burst,” which many have taken as an attempt to ‘straight-wash’ the movie’s predominant same-sex romance."

straight-washes (present, singular) straight-washing (participle, present) straight-washed (participle, past) straight-washed (past)

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