Raw describes a material that is in its natural unprocessed form, or has not had the final stages of processing. For example, raw food refers to food that has not been cook, and raw silk is the term for unprocessed silk. Raw also has symbolic meaning. See Claude Lévi-Strauss's The Raw and the CookedRAW or raw may also refer to:Entertainment and literature Robert Anton Wilson, American author Eddie Murphy Raw, a 1987 live stand-up comedy recording The Mighty RAW