drinking straw

1. 1.

   a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth

   Synonymsstraw

   Broadertube

Questions about drinking straw

What does drinking straw mean?

drinking straw means "a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth".

What is another word for drinking straw?

Close synonyms include straw. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drinking straw a common word?

drinking straw is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.