Usually means: Thin tube for drinking liquids.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. straw: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. straw, straw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. straw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. straw: Collins English Dictionary
  5. straw: Vocabulary.com
  6. Straw, straw: Wordnik
  7. straw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Straw, straw: Wiktionary
  9. straw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. straw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. straw: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Straw, straw: Dictionary.com
  13. straw: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. straw: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Straw (band), Straw (card game), Straw (colour), Straw (cryogenic storage), Straw (story), Straw, The Straw (Eugene O'Neill): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Straw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. straw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. straw: Rhymezone
  19. straw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. straw: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Straw: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. straw: Free Dictionary
  23. straw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. straw: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. straw: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Straw (agricultural product), straw: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Straw (agricultural product), straw: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. STRAW: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. straw: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Straw: Easton Bible
  2. Straw: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. straw: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Straw: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Straw: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See strawing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
noun:  (uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
noun:  (countable) A drinking straw.
noun:  (uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
noun:  (figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
noun:  A straw owner
adjective:  Made of straw.
adjective:  Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
adjective:  (figurative) Imaginary, but presented as real.
verb:  To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
verb:  (obsolete, slang) To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.

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