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straw

1. n. marijuana. (Drugs.) He stood right on the corner, selling straw by the handful from a bucket at his feet—and nobody even called the cops. This straw is not the best quality I’ve seen.

2. n. papers for rolling marijuana cigarettes. (Drugs.) I can’t manage the straw with one hand. How do these cowboys do it?

See:

• A drowning man will clutch at a straw
• a man of straw
• a straw in the wind
• bang straw
• buy straw hats in winter
• called to straw
• catch at (a) straw(s)
• clutch at a straw
• clutch at straws
• draw straws
• draw straws for
• draw the short straw
• grasp at a straw
• grasp at straws
• grasping at straws
• It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back
• last straw
• last straw, the
• make bricks without straw
• man of straw
• not worth a damn
• straw
• straw boss
• straw in the wind
• straw man
• straw poll
• straw that stirs the drink
• straw vote
• stumble at a straw
• take a straw poll
• the final straw
• the short straw
• the straw that breaks the camel's back
• the straw that breaks the donkey's back
• the straw that broke the camel's back
• the straw that broke the donkey's back
• throw straws against the wind
• You cannot make bricks without straw
• You can't make bricks without straw