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noun
- Synonym of straw buyer.
- (figurative, engineering, business) An outline serving as an initial proposal for a project, usually refined iteratively.
- (figurative) An insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor or argument, particularly one deliberately set up to be weakly supported, e.g. by misrepresenting an opponent's argument by broadening or narrowing the scope of a premise, so that it can be easily knocked down; especially to impugn the strength of any related or contrasted thing or idea.
- A doll or scarecrow, particularly one stuffed with straw.
- (figurative) An innocuous person or someone of nominal or lesser importance, as a front man or straw boss.
- a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted
- an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
- a male person used as a cover for some questionable activity
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- A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
- (attributive) A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
- (sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
- (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang) A term of address.
- Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
- (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
- (Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.
- (sports, UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that cannot move or capture, but can be captured and used to skip moving another piece.
- (programming) An unused parameter or value.
- A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
- A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
- (card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
- A stupid person.
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- an ignorant or foolish person
- a person who does not talk
- a figure representing the human form
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- A straw owner.
- (countable) A drinking straw.
- (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
- (figurative, chiefly in the negative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
- (uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
- (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.
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
- plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
- a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth
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- A male given name from English in occasional use.
- A surname transferred from the nickname for someone who acted like a prince, or played the part in a pageant, or served in the household of a prince.
- A township in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.
- A census-designated place in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
- A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Meota No. 468, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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- (chiefly North-country English dialectal) the straw ornament on top of a haystack.
- (chiefly North-country English dialectal) a paste flower on top of a pie cover.
- (engineering) A device, originally a heated sleave of fire clay, variously used to introduce molten metal to counter the formation of hollows in metal castings as they shrink while the mould cools. Now commonly called hot top or feeder head
- (chiefly North-country English dialectal) the tobacco left at the bottom of a pipe and put on the top of the next fill: dottle; in a general sense, a plug or a cap to top something off.
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- Synonym of straw buyer.
- (figurative, engineering, business) An outline serving as an initial proposal for a project, usually refined iteratively.
- (figurative) An insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor or argument, particularly one deliberately set up to be weakly supported, e.g. by misrepresenting an opponent's argument by broadening or narrowing the scope of a premise, so that it can be easily knocked down; especially to impugn the strength of any related or contrasted thing or idea.
- A doll or scarecrow, particularly one stuffed with straw.
- (figurative) An innocuous person or someone of nominal or lesser importance, as a front man or straw boss.
- a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted
- an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
- a male person used as a cover for some questionable activity
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noun
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- A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
- (attributive) A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
- (sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
- (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang) A term of address.
- Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
- (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
- (Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.
- (sports, UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that cannot move or capture, but can be captured and used to skip moving another piece.
- (programming) An unused parameter or value.
- A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
- A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
- (card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
- A stupid person.
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- an ignorant or foolish person
- a person who does not talk
- a figure representing the human form
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- A straw owner.
- (countable) A drinking straw.
- (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
- (figurative, chiefly in the negative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
- (uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
- (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.
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
- plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
- a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth
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- (chiefly North-country English dialectal) the straw ornament on top of a haystack.
- (chiefly North-country English dialectal) a paste flower on top of a pie cover.
- (engineering) A device, originally a heated sleave of fire clay, variously used to introduce molten metal to counter the formation of hollows in metal castings as they shrink while the mould cools. Now commonly called hot top or feeder head
- (chiefly North-country English dialectal) the tobacco left at the bottom of a pipe and put on the top of the next fill: dottle; in a general sense, a plug or a cap to top something off.
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