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Racy

adjective

(compar. racier; superl. raciest)

Full of zest or vigor. Synonym: lively.

Marked by richness and fullness of flavor. Synonyms: full-bodied, rich, robust. "Full-bodied wines" , "A robust claret" , "The robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee"

Suggestive of sexual impropriety. Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, risque, spicy. "Blue jokes" , "He skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details" , "A juicy scandal" , "A naughty wink" , "Naughty words" , "Racy anecdotes" , "A risque story" , "Spicy gossip"

Designed or suitable for competing in a race.

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"Racy" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mr Trotter, greatly relieved. "I want a book of twenty pages. Write anything you like, only bring the pickles in on each page. You know the style. Twenty blood-curdling ballads, or Aesop's fables, or something the public's bound to read. Something racy, mind, and all ending in the pickle. It's a good thing, so you needn't be afraid of overdoing it. You shall have a bob a page, money down, or twenty-five bob for the lot if you let me have it this time to- morrow. Remember, nothing ...

— A Dog with a Bad Name • Talbot Baines Reed

... Rochefort's paper next day, to see what his correspondent had to say about the visit. Some passages from it are too racy ...

— In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould

... 16. Coined in the early 1960s to replace earlier 'sexadecimal', which was too racy and amusing for stuffy IBM, and later adopted by the rest ...

— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

... ever he saw that the riders were close at hand, and that the horses did not get out on the slope of sage. He sat back and gloried in the sight. He owned bands of mustangs; near by was a field of them, fine and mettlesome and racy; yet Bostil had eyes only for the blooded favorites. Strange it was that not one of these was a mustang or a broken wild horse, for many of the riders' best mounts had been captured by them or the Indians. And it was Bostil's supreme ambition ...

— Wildfire • Zane Grey

... of certain city conditions. In the choice of Mr. Augustus Thomas's "In Mizzoura"—"The Witching Hour" having so often been used in dramatic collections—the Editor believes he has represented this playwright at a time when his dramas were most racy and native. ...

— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: - Introduction and Bibliography • Montrose J. Moses

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