Meaning of fruit up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To become full of fruit, seeds, or spores.
2. To add fruit; To adorn or embellish with fruit.
3. To grope a young boy.
   derogatory, idiomatic

Examples

“The grass and weeds come up to my waist and the plum trees are already fruiting up, though most of the fruit'll go to the wasps and the worms, Vinny says, 'cause he can't be arsed to pick it.”

“Amy spent the morning baking and this afternoon brought the result — dainty little fancies all fudged and fruited up.”

“Even Andy's most recent show featured the star all fruited up as Carmen Miranda for the venerable Manilow number "Copacabana."”

“Miranda would appear all fruited-up many times.”

“"All fruited up like that?" I look to Ritchie. "That's quite a gay shandy," he says. "Which most people get ridiculed for. But I figured it's good after a scrap." So I switch to lager, while Ritchie stays with the lemonade beer.”

“I had been "fruited up." There was no distinction made back then that this man was a pedophile, and even my mother told me that this is what queer people do.”

“My experience with the brothers was that if you were one of their favorites you would be regularly groped. We kids called it “being fruited up."”

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