Meaning of coconut | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
   countable, uncountable
2. The fruit of the coconut palm, consisting of a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
3. testicle
4. A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
   countable, uncountable
5. The large, brown, hard-shelled seed of the coconut, containing white flesh surrounding a partially fluid-filled central cavity.
6. US dollars
7. The edible white flesh of this fruit.
   uncountable
8. The edible white flesh of the coconut, often shredded and used in food and confections or for the extraction of coconut oil.
9. bogeyman
10. The coconut palm.
    countable, uncountable
11. A coconut palm.
12. brain; head
13. A member of any of various dark-skinned ethnic groups (e.g. Hispanic, South Asian, or black) who is considered to have overly assimilated to white culture:
    US, countable, derogatory, ethnic, slur, uncountable
14. A Hispanic or other dark-skinned person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture.
    US, countable, derogatory, ethnic, slur, uncountable
15. (Plants) the fruit of the coconut palm, consisting of a thick fibrous oval husk inside which is a thin hard shell enclosing edible white meat. The hollow centre is filled with a milky fluid (coconut milk)
16. A black person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a black race traitor.
    Australia, Kenya, South-Africa, countable, derogatory, ethnic, slur, uncountable
17. A Malay person who cannot speak Malay.
    Singapore, countable, derogatory, ethnic, slur, uncountable
18. (Cookery) a. the meat of the coconut, often shredded and used in cakes, curries, etc
19. An Indian person who cannot speak Tamil.
    Malaysia, countable, derogatory, ethnic, slur, uncountable
20. slang derogatory a black or Asian person who conforms to white culture at the expense of his or her ancestral culture, the idea being that, like a coconut, he or she is dark on the outside and white on the inside
    slang
21. A Pacific islander.
    New-Zealand, countable, derogatory, ethnic, slur, uncountable
22. the large hard-shelled seed of the coconut palm, lined with a white edible meat, and containing a milky liquid.
23. A female breast.
    countable, slang, uncountable
24. the meat of the coconut, often shredded and used in cooking.
25. The human head.
    countable, slang, uncountable
26. coconut palm.

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Examples

“The Coco-nut Trees grow by the Sea, on the Weſtern ſide in great Groves, 3 or 4 Miles in length, and a Mile or two broad. This tree is in ſhape like the Cabbage-tree, and at a diſtance they are not to be known each from other, only the Coco-nut Tree is fuller of Branches ; but the Cabbage-tree generally is much higher, tho' the Coco-nut Trees in ſome places are very high.”

“After that I was regarded as comic. I became a ‘coconut’—someone brown on the outside, white on the inside. I was the bleached academic—more white than the anglo professors. In my classes several students glared at me, clearly seeing in me the person they feared ever becoming. Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization?”

“Their convictions challenged those critics who dismissed John Githongo’s anti-corruption efforts as the naïve projection of inappropriate ‘mzungu’ values onto an African nation where they were doomed to fail. If John was a ‘coconut’, he certainly wasn’t the only coconut in Kenya.”

“Your mum is a white whore, you coconut.”

“He compliments her erect posture and says her breasts look like big clusters of grapes hanging off a palm tree. You would expect him to say merely that he likes her big coconuts.”

“[Ashley J. Williams shoots a zombified version of the Winter Soldier in the head.] Dazzler: Oh my God...thank you! I-i-is he-- Ashley J. Williams: A double-barrel boomstick blast straight through the coconut? Trust me, babe--he's not comin' back from that one.”

“'How unfortunate.' 'Yes. It's rather causing him to go off his coconut. He's met a girl, you see. A peach.'”

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