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▸ 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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