| 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. | |
