Eggplant

Definitions

1. The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.
   Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, Philippines, US, countable, uncountable
2. A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
   Canada, US, countable, uncountable
3. A black person; used mainly by Italian-Americans.
   US, countable, derogatory, offensive, slang, uncountable
4. A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Some fun meatless recipes include⟳ jackfruit sandwiches in place⟳ of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.””

“Hey. Yeah. And, and your great-great-great-great grandmother fucked a nigger, ho, ho, yeah, and she had a half-nigger kid… now, if that's a fact, tell⟳ me, am I lying? 'Cause you, you're part eggplant.”

“"Why am I not surprised?" This was the limit⟳. "You know⟳, I'm black enough for his family to yell⟳ eggplant-this and nigger-that at me," she said.”

“What else can he do? But Hopper continues his riff. "Sicilians still carry⟳ that nigger gene . . . Your ancestors are niggers. You're part eggplant."”

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