Talk:raw

Verb

There is a slang meaning along the lines of "to fuck roughly (for example, without lubricant)"; search for "[get] rawed by" for examples. I can't find it anywhere durable yet, though. - -sche (discuss) 01:13, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

RFD discussion: November 2024–January 2025

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Rfd-sense: Adverb: (slang, sex) Without a condom. Usages generally look adjectival. "did it unprotected", "go unprotected" seem to work similarly. Svartava2 (talk) 09:13, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

In the two examples already in the entry (one usage example, one quotation) I believe it's an adverb modifying whichever verb or verb phrase is used for sex, rather than an adjective describing sex as a noun: "we did it raw", not "we did it raw", "I'm about to go raw". If you substitute other words, it seems more clearly adverbial: "we did it quickly", "we did it safely", "I'm going to go directly". If you're describing the sex (noun), rather than the action of having sex (verb), making raw an adjective, then you'd phrase it differently: "we had raw sex", "we had great sex". I could almost see "raw" in "go raw" as a complement describing the noun subject rather than the verb, but I still think it describes the manner of going, making it an adverb. I think this could go to RfV if additional examples are needed, but I don't think this sense would be challenged (though I do wonder if the phrase isn't too new or trendy to have a lot of printed examples). P Aculeius (talk) 23:18, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Weak keep per P Aculeius. LunaEatsTuna (talk) 11:44, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

• Kept Only the nominator has expressed a deletionary viewpoint and no one has commented in a month. This close does not preclude an RfV Purplebackpack89 21:05, 12 January 2025 (UTC)