Green’s Dictionary of Slang

strictly adv.

(orig. US) totally, entirely.

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implied in strictly from hunger
[US]C. Himes ‘The Song Says “Keep On Smiling”’ in Coll. Stories 89: ‘I know where there’s a silver fox jacket that’s strictly a good deal’.
[US]L. Durst Jives of Dr. Hepcat (1989) 3: Yes the ‘gators’ are sliding in, draped in their mad fronts, so sharp ‘can’t any body grunt.’ Ziz zag pockets on one button rolls, bolero jackets strictly for strolls.
[US]W. Brown Teen-Age Mafia 22: Once you got hooked on horse pod didn’t do a thing for you. It was strictly for the squares.
[US]Time 21 Nov. 46: At the wind-up of his two-week tour, Soviet Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy announced that New York was strictly Endsville.

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strictly from [prob. Yid. origin]

in the style of, derivative of, exactly like .

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[US]Cab Calloway Of Minnie the Moocher and Me 71: We were strictly from the sticks.
[US]R.L. Bellem ‘Shakedown Sham’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective May 🌐 She tried to pull a bluster on me but it was strictly from corn; didn’t register.
[US]W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 31: There we are in this no-horse town, strictly from cough syrup.
[US] in T.I. Rubin Sweet Daddy 66: The whole school was strictly from pigtown.
[US]Frank Zappa ‘Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow’ 🎵 A fur trapper, who was strictly from commercial.
strictly from hunger [note from hunger under hunger n.]

driven by dire necessity, usu. financial.

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[US]N. West Miss Lonelyhearts (1969) 66: The owner’s strictly from hunger. Come on, I’ll get you fixed up swell.
[US]S.J. Perelman [bk title] Strictly from Hunger.
J.H. O’Hara Files on Parade 122: Its hard to believe that under two months ago Joey was strictly from hunger as they say but I was.
[US]J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 1: Under two months ago your old pal Joey was strictly from hunger, as they say.
[US]Commonweal XLIII 2: He is, as the boys say, strictly from hunger, and one suspects a bit of malice.
Rubington & Weinberg Deviance 350/1: I was hanging ’round bars [...] I had no place to go, like. It was strictly from hunger, man.
J. Cagney Encarta Bk Quotations (2000) 170: I went into show business strictly from hunger. Starvation helps to turn you into a good actor, I guess.
C. Vale Allen Julia’s Sister 67: You’re a good head [...] But you’re strictly from hunger with the ladies. Harry the Rat With Women.
P. Plate Fogtown 27: ‘Girl, you strictly from hunger,’ he said. ‘You ain’t even got a penny.’.