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drinking-straw

noun

Definitions

  1. Dated form of drinking straw.

    • Apples, liquid, fresh and sweet, were present too, and their little brown jug with its drinking-straws was pleasantly patronized in its quaintly retired corner.
    • The bureau of manufactures, department of commerce and labor, has a communication from an American business house which states it has been purchasing drinking-straws abroad, but would like to make purchases in the home market.
    • Drinking-straws, Receptacle for dispensing.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for drinking-straw. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA