in the raw prepositional phrase3 •Unprocessed, rough.I guaranteed him that in both these synagogues hakafot would provide him with music "in the raw." — 2017 •In the natural state; in real life.He was seeing life in the raw, and it was a different life from what he had known within the printed books of his library. — 1908 •(euphemistic) Naked.He stood gawking at Cyndee, who was standing in the raw on the shore of the pond his daddy had put in. — 2001