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Straw Dogs (2011 film)
Straw Dogs is a 2011 psychological thriller directed by Rod Lurie. It is a remake of the 1971 film and is based on the novel by Gordon Williams.
Straw Hat Goofy
Straw Hat Goofy is the TikTok and podcast alias of American film critic Juju (Julian) Green from Compton, known for @straw_hat_goofy movie breakdowns, the Get Rec'd podcast, iHeartMedia work, and One Piece-derived branding.
Straw Hats
Straw Hats (麦わらの一味, Straw Hat Pirates) are Monkey D. Luffy's ten-member crew in Eiichiro Oda's One Piece, named for the straw hat from Shanks, sailing for the One Piece treasure with a Jolly Roger of a straw-hatted skull.
Straw Hats' Jolly Roger
The Straw Hats' Jolly Roger (麦わらの一味の海賊旗) is the One Piece pirate flag: a grinning skull in Luffy's straw hat over crossed bones, drawn by Luffy and Usopp, and a Gen Z protest symbol since 2023.
Straw man
A straw man is an informal fallacy in which a speaker misrepresents an opponent's position and then refutes the distorted version instead of the real one.
Straw purchase
Straw purchase: a buy made by one person on behalf of another, chiefly in U.S. firearms law (18 U.S.C. §932, Abramski), also straw buyers in mortgage, auto loan, and campaign finance fraud.
Straw that broke the camel's back
The straw that broke the camel's back, also known as the final straw, is an English idiom describing a small addition to a burden that causes failure.
Straw-bale construction
Straw-bale construction is a building method using stacked straw bales as load-bearing walls or frame insulation, developed in Nebraska from about 1900 to 1940 and revived since the 1970s.
Strawberries and Cream Tree
The Strawberries and Cream Tree is a rare graft-chimaera cherry tree in Backwell, North Somerset, England, flowering pink and white on one trunk from two cherry species.
Strawberry
Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa), the cultivated garden strawberry, an octoploid hybrid of F. virginiana and F. chiloensis arising in 1750s France; grown as June-bearing, everbearing, and day-neutral cultivars, with day-neutrals driving California's yield doubling since the 1970s.
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Strawberry Alarm Clock, successor to Thee Sixpence, is a Southern California psychedelic rock band whose 1967 single "Incense and Peppermints" topped the Billboard Hot 100; still active with five original members and the 2026 album Where's One?.
Strawberry and Chocolate
Strawberry and Chocolate (Fresa y chocolate), 1993 Cuban-Mexican-Spanish comedy-drama by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío; friendship between communist student David and gay artist Diego in 1979 Havana; first Cuban Oscar nominee.
Strawberry Fields (festival)
Strawberry Fields is an Australian independent electronic and live music camping festival founded in 2009, held each summer on the Murray River near Tocumwal, New South Wales.
Strawberry Fields (memorial)
Strawberry Fields is the John Lennon memorial in Central Park, New York, near West 72nd Street opposite the Dakota. Named for "Strawberry Fields Forever," dedicated October 9, 1985, it centers on the Naples-donated Imagine mosaic.
Strawberry Fields Forever
Strawberry Fields Forever, Beatles psychedelic single written by John Lennon, released February 1967 as a double A-side with Penny Lane; spliced from takes 7 and 26, peaked at UK number 2 and US number 8.
Strawberry Panic! (ストロベリー・パニック!)
Strawberry Panic! (ストロベリー・パニック!) is a yuri media franchise from a 2003–2005 Dengeki G's reader project, spanning Kono Sakura's 3 light novels, a 2-volume manga, a 2006 Madhouse anime, and a 2006 PS2 game, set at an all-female Catholic school with an Etoile system; the anime, manga, and novels tell substantially different stories.
Strawberry poison-dart frog
The strawberry poison-dart frog (Oophaga pumilio) is a small toxic frog from Caribbean rainforests of Central America, famous for color morphs ranging from red to blue and green.
Strawberry Shortcake
Strawberry Shortcake is a media franchise owned by WildBrain, begun as a greeting-card character in the late 1970s and expanded into dolls, TV specials, and animated series.
Strawberry shortcake (dessert)
Strawberry shortcake: American dessert of sweetened strawberries, a split biscuit-style shortcake, and whipped cream; first in an American cookbook in 1847, with macerated berries forming a no-cook syrup.
Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City
Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City is WildBrain's 2021 2D-animated reboot of the 1973 Strawberry Shortcake franchise, following Strawberry and her berry besties running food trucks in Big Apple City across three seasons.
Strawberry vein banding virus
Strawberry vein banding virus (SVBV, Caulimovirus venafragariae) is a dsDNA caulimovirus of Fragaria strawberries, aphid-transmitted semipersistently, causing vein banding, first reported 1955, distributed worldwide.
Strawbs
Strawbs, English rock band founded 1964 as the Strawberry Hill Boys, led by Dave Cousins; first UK act signed to A&M Records, folk rock to progressive rock, 1973 hit Part of the Union at UK No. 2; Cousins died 2025.
Stray (video game)
Stray (HK_Project) is a 2022 third-person cat adventure game by BlueTwelve Studio and Annapurna Interactive, set in a Kowloon-inspired cybercity with drone B-12; Metacritic 83, released July 19, 2022.
Stray Birds
Stray Birds (Bengali: ছোট পাখি) is a 1916 collection of 325 short aphoristic poems by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, published by Macmillan and translated by Tagore himself.
Stray Cats
Stray Cats, an American rockabilly revival trio (Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker, Slim Jim Phantom) formed 1979 in Massapequa, New York; known for the hits "Rock This Town," "Stray Cat Strut," and "(She's) Sexy + 17," and for moving to London in 1980 to spearhead the early-1980s rockabilly revival.
Stray current corrosion
Stray current corrosion is corrosion of buried or immersed metal structures, chiefly pipelines, caused by external electric currents from DC rail systems and cathodic protection.
Stray Dog (野良犬) (film)
Stray Dog (野良犬, Nora inu) is Akira Kurosawa's 1949 Japanese crime film, 122 minutes, in which detective Murakami (Toshiro Mifune), with veteran Sato (Takashi Shimura), hunts his stolen Colt pistol through postwar Tokyo's black market.
Stray Dogs
Stray Dogs (郊遊, Jiao You) is Tsai Ming-liang's 2013 Taiwan-France drama about a homeless father and two children in Taipei; it won the Venice Grand Jury Prize and Golden Horse Best Director and Best Actor.
Stray Kids (스트레이 키즈)
Stray Kids (스트레이 키즈) is an eight-member JYP Entertainment boy group that debuted March 25, 2018 with I am NOT; its 3RACHA team self-produces its music, and it holds six consecutive Billboard 200 number-ones.
Stray voltage
Stray voltage is a small voltage between two surfaces an animal touches at once, such as a water trough and barn floor, giving dairy cows a mild shock.