What is the meaning of STRAW. Phrases containing STRAW
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Rear end of caboose by night; also railroad yard studded with red lights
Git (twit). That bloke's a right strawberry
Foreman of small gang or acting foreman
Strawberry is American slang for a prostitute who sells sex for drugs.
Bale of Straw is American tramp slang for a blonde woman
MDMA
amphetamine
Straw basher is slang for a straw hat, a boater.
Straw yard was old slang for a night shelter for the homeless.
LSD
Grasp at straws is slang for to make futile efforts.
Strawberry tart is London Cockney rhyming slang for the heart.
depressant
Jack Straw is British slang for an insubstantial man.
Strawberries is slang for secobarbital.
Railroad men who work only in pleasant weather
cannabis cigarette
female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack
Strawberry ripple is London Cockney rhyming slang for a cripple.
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Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw.
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Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.
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Consisting of vetches or of pea straw.
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Bearing sarments, or runners, as the strawberry.
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A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner.
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A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.
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A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.
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The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
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A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the European, F. vesca. There are also other less common species.
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A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
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Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceae) of which the rose is the type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service trees, and quinces.
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The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.
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An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
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Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.
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An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
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To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.
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The merest trifle; a straw.
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A handful of straw bound together at one end, and used for thatching.
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Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
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