straw
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- noun
- /strɔ/
- During the picnic, each child enjoyed their juice with a colorful straw.
- drinking straw
- suck on the straw
- soda straw
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Watch on YouTubeIn the video, they just put the straw through the skin.
- In the video, they just put the straw through the skin.
- I'm going back to plastic straws now.
- We'll all be sucking marinara through a straw on Zoom.
- People are willing to stop using plastic straws to save the fish.
- K quadriplegic in a wheelchair basically can blow in a straw and move his eyes.
Examples
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We'll all be sucking marinara through a straw on Zoom.
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The engine operates by blowing into the drinking straw inserted above the piston.
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I'll have another one of these With no straw.
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People are willing to stop using plastic straws to save the fish.
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Dude, don't chew on the straw.
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When I ordered my lemonade, the waiter brought me a drink with a straw to sip through.
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To drink my smoothie, I used a reusable straw made of metal.
Synonyms
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A thin tube often made of plastic or paper that you use to suck a drink into your mouth
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A metal straw with a small filter used to drink mate
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Compounds
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A thin tube often made of plastic or paper that you use to suck a drink into your mouth
- Jargon
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A person who appears to own things but hides the real owner often for illegal acts
- Indian
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A small mushroom you can eat with a white cap and long stem used in Asian cooking
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Etymology
Straw for a drinking tube gets its name from the dry stalks of grain that people long ago used as hollow tubes to sip with. So a straw is literally named after those plant stems and is a small tube for sipping drinks.