Definitions for straw

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IPA: /strɔ/

Straw is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in straw (arstw).

Definitions for straw

noun

1. a single stalk or stem, especially of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
2. a mass of such stalks, especially after drying and threshing, used as fodder.
3. material, fibers, etc., made from such stalks, as used for making hats or baskets.
4. the negligible value of one such stalk; trifle; least bit:
5. a tube, usually of paper or glass, for sucking up a beverage from a container:
6. anything of possible but dubious help in a desperate circumstance.
7. straw man (def 2).
8. a straw hat.

Idioms

1. catch / clutch / grasp at a straw / straws / any straw(s), to seize at any chance, no matter how slight, of saving oneself from calamity.
2. draw straws, to decide by lottery using straws or strawlike items of different lengths, usually with the short straw or straws determining the person chosen or the loser.

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, containing, or made of straw:
2. of the color of straw; pale yellow.
3. of little value or consequence; worthless.
4. sham; fictitious.

Origin of straw

before 950; Middle English; Old English strēaw; cognate with German Stroh; akin to strew

Examples for straw

Hana seeks refuge from the buzzing lights of Otome Road in a nearby café and makes another swirl with her straw.

Exactly one month after the first straw goat was erected in Gävle, it was mysteriously burned to a crisp.

I thanked him, sat down on the sofa, and sipped it through the straw.

After the good-night to my neighbour, I tumbled into my straw and slept soundly, animal-like.

Joe picked his straw hat from a chair and stood turning it in his hands.

"Sure I'm only rowling a wisp of straw on my leg," replied Hosey.

The tenacity of this straw makes it very valuable for such purposes.

She slowly moves her straw through the whipped cream in her designer latte and looks up.

A Saudi Arabian television ad for Viagra shows a man struggling to push a straw through the lid of his beverage.

The hallways were strewn with straw and the litter of packing.