racy

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
9
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ˈɹeɪsi/

Definition of racy

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Mildly risqué.
    “She wore a racy dress that was just barely appropriate for the occasion.”
    “a racy story”
    ““Well, I did have two boyfriends, which was racy at the time,” she says now.”
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adj

  1. Mildly risqué.
    “She wore a racy dress that was just barely appropriate for the occasion.”
    “a racy story”
    ““Well, I did have two boyfriends, which was racy at the time,” she says now.”
  2. Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil.
    “a racy wine”
  3. (broadly, figuratively)Exciting to the mind by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.
  4. Involving a data race or a race condition.
    “These are some common descriptions of badly constructed tests: Tests that sometimes run, sometimes fail (often this is caused by the use of threads, or racy code that relies on specific timing, by reliance on external dependencies, the order of tests being run in the test suite, or on shared state)”
    “We evaluate the automatic fence insertion procedure by running our tool on a number of different benchmarks containing racy code.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From race (“having a characteristic taste (of wines, fruits, etc.)”) + -y.

Anagrams of racy

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Words you can make from racy

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6 words

2-letter words

3 words

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