eggplant
Meaning
- The plant Solanum melongena.
- The edible fruit of the Solanum melongena: an aubergine.
- A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
- (slang) A black person (used mainly by Italian-Americans).
- A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/藞蓻伞.pl忙nt/
Etymology
From egg + plant, originally applied only to the white-colored, egg-shaped variety.
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