noun

• (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
• (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.
• (countable) A drinking straw.
• (uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

adj

• (figurative) Imaginary, but presented as real.
  "A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon."

verb

• (obsolete, slang) To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
  "It was the custom for the disaffected of those days to make known their grievances by distributing papers on doors of public buildings, and even strawing them in the high way, for the benefit of the chance passenger."