racy

comparative racier · superlative raciest

1. Mildly risqué.

   a racy story

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   She wore a racy dress that was just barely appropriate for the occasion.

   “Well, I did have two boyfriends, which was racy at the time,” she says now.

   2021 March 27, Simon Hattenstone, quoting Charlotte Rampling, “Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

2. Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil.

   a racy wine

   Synonyms: fresh, rich

3. broadlyfigurativelyExciting to the mind by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.
4. computingInvolving a data race or a race condition.

   We evaluate the automatic fence insertion procedure by running our tool on a number of different benchmarks containing racy code.

   2016, Elvira Albert, Ivan Lanese, Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems

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   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)

   2014, Pete Goodliffe, Becoming a Better Programmer: A Handbook for People Who Care About Code