straw, n.Definitions

A Straw is a long portable hole

A Straw is a device with only one hole.

A Straw is a portal leading to a whole other beverage dimension

A Straw is a long hole with a plastic coating.

A Straw is the opposite of a snorkel.

A Straw is your friend until you lose eye contact with it, at which point it will betray you and make you look like an idiot.

A Straw is a device resulting in your consuming your beverage from bottom to top rather than from top to bottom.

The Straw is an object whose whole point is that you don't not have to set down the slice of pizza to suck a dose of Coke while reading a paperback.