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RAW
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What does RAW mean?
adjective
- (of food) Not cooked.
- Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
- Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
More meanings (22)
adjective
- Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
- New or inexperienced.
- Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
- Uncorrected, without analysis.
- Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
- Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
- Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
- Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
- (slang) Without a condom.
- (obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.
adverb
- (slang) Without a condom.
noun
- An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
- A galled place; an inveterate sore.
- (figuratively) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
- (slang) Unadulterated narcotics, especially crack cocaine
- (slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
- (slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.
- 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).
- Initialism of read after write, a kind of data hazard.
verb
- (slang) To sexually penetrate without a condom.
proper noun
- Initialism of Research and Analysis Wing.
- A surname from Old English.
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IPA pronunciation
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See this word in context.
Is not their climate foggy, raw, and dull, On whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale, Killing their fruit with frowns?
The boy shut his little teeth, and said never a word though he twisted occasionally when the soap struck a raw spot.
More book examples (3)
I saw him administer a dose of the raw brandy to M’ling, and saw the five figures melt into one vague patch.
It was a raw, damp evening, but the streets had already begun to bustle with their nightly exuberance of light and colour.
Likewise, its diversified heavy industry supplied equipment and raw materials to industrial and mining sites in other regions of the former USSR.