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In the raw

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Adjective
  1. 1
    (used informally) completely unclothed wordnet
Prep_phrase
  1. 1
    Unprocessed, rough.

    "I guaranteed him that in both these synagogues hakafot would provide him with music "in the raw.""

  2. 2
    In the natural state; in real life. idiomatic

    "He was seeing life in the raw, and it was a different life from what he had known within the printed books of his library."

  3. 3
    Naked. euphemistic, idiomatic

    "He stood gawking at Cyndee, who was standing in the raw on the shore of the pond his daddy had put in."

Etymology

Ellipsis of in the raw state.

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