Apricot

Definitions

1. A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
   countable, uncountable
2. The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
   countable, uncountable
3. A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
   countable, uncountable
4. A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
   countable, uncountable
5. The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
   countable, uncountable
6. A testicle.
   Australia, countable, dated, plural-normally, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“pickled apricots”

“Seven hundred and seventy-eight yards, though I didn't know⟳ the exact measurement at the time, plus the fact that the bullet ripped through the victim's apricot tipped me to the fact that we were probably dealing with an experienced sniper.”

“I'd aim right for the apricot. The medulla. You'd die⟳ instantly.”

““See⟳ the nose?” Slater asked. He’d drawn a face⟳ on the watermelon with a Sharpie. “Aim right below it, at the philtrum. That way, the bullet's gonna go straight through and hit the apricot. Carmen told you about the apricot?” In my first lesson. The apricot was the sniper's nickname for the medulla oblongata, the cone-shaped mass of neurons that connected the brain to the spinal cord.”

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