Racy

/ˈɹeɪsi/ · adjective

Meaning

Mildly risqué..

Definitions by Sense

1. Mildly risqué.
2. Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil.
3. (figurative, by extension) Exciting to the mind by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.
4. (programming) Involving a data race or a race condition.

Example Sentences

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.

a racy wine

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.

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Word Forms

• racier
• raciest

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