straw | |
1. n. A dried stalk of a cereal plant. | |
2. n. Such dried stalks considered collectively. | |
3. n. A drinking straw. | |
4. n. A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw. | |
(color panel, F2D594) | |
5. n. (figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing. | |
6. adj. Made of straw. | |
straw hat | |
7. adj. Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw. | |
8. adj. (figurative) Imaginary, but presented as real. | |
A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon. | |
9. v. To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost. | |
10. v. (obsolete, slang) To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography. | |