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stray

Definition

  • noun: a domestic animal that is wandering at large or is lost
  • verb: to go in a direction that is away from a group or from the place where you should be
  • verb: as
  • verb: to wander from company, restraint, or proper limits
  • often + 'from'
  • synonyms: wander, roam, deviate

Examples

  • Her eyes 'strayed from' her computer to the window. [=she stopped looking at her computer and began looking at/out the window]

  • a 'straying' husband [=a husband who has sexual relations with a woman who is not his wife]

  • I matched up the socks in the laundry but I was left with one 'stray'. [=one extra sock]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I gotta remember, it's gonna kill me. Hold on. No, I don't know. I, I, I thought I know. Hey, you ever hang out down on th Street with a stray named Kelvin? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kelvin, the Labrador. - What? You gotta gimme something here, cause this is redonkulous. Absolutely redonkulous! (..)
    2008 Bolt