raw
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Is raw a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (cooking) (of food) Not cooked.Examples: "There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer."; "He ate raw beef for dinner."
2. (cooking) (of food) Not cooked.Examples: "I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018."
3. (statistics, of data) Uncorrected, without analysis.Examples: "What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society."
4. (slang, sex) Without a condom.slang
5. (obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.Examples: "with scull all raw"obsolete
adv (English)
1. (slang, sex) Without a condom.Examples: "We did it raw."; "You know what I be on, I'm about to go raw"Synonyms: condomlessslang
noun (English)
1. (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.Examples: "With the recent advance in London yellow crystals, however, the disproportion of the relative value of these two kinds has been considerably reduced, and a better demand for crystallized raws should consequently occur."; "Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration."; "The world sugar contract closed 1 to 3 points net higher, with sales of only 36 lots. London raws sold at 8s. 4½d., and futures there were unchanged to 3d. higher."
2. (by extension, figurative) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.Examples: "In a moment Tom was angry. The women saw that Bill had touched him upon the raw, and they went out of the room to prepare a meal."broadlyfiguratively
3. (anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.slang
4. (manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.slang
verb (English)
1. (slang, transitive) To sexually penetrate without a condom.slangtransitive
name (English)
1. (India, acronym) Initialism of Research and Analysis Wing.Examples: "RAW is a well-known acronym in India for an organization whose detailed character and activities are not well-known. RAW stands for the Research and Analysis Wing either of India's prime minister's department or the cabinet's secretariat, which was established in 1968 to handle internal intelligence."Synonyms: R&AWIndiaabbreviationacronymalt-ofinitialism
noun (English)
1. (games) Abbreviation of rules as written: the actual rules appearing in the rulebook, as opposed to house rules, or to rules that might have been intended (in the event of a mistake in the rulebook).Synonyms: RaWabbreviationalt-ofuncountable
2. (computing) Initialism of read after write, a kind of data hazard.abbreviationalt-ofinitialismuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary