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apple

Definition

  • noun: a round fruit with red, yellow, or green skin and firm white flesh
  • noun: the fleshy usually rounded red, yellow, or green edible pome fruit of a usually cultivated tree (genus 'Malus') of the rose family
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: pome, love apple, apple shell

Examples

  • A few 'bad apples' cheated on the test, and now everyone has to take the test again.

  • a bad/rotten 'apple' [=an apple that has rotted and cannot be eaten]

  • Everything in the cupboard was (arranged) 'in apple-pie order'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) Let's reschedule, okay? Hey, Maggie. Um, why is the new kid waving at me? SAMANTHA: I don't know. But if that boy were an apple... ...he'd be a Delicious. MIKE: Oh, God. Gosh, we are all in such great shape. Oh, jeez. (..)
    2009 17 Again