banana
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Definition
noun (English)
1. An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.CanadaIrelandUKUScountableuncountable
2. (uncountable) A yellow color, like that of a banana's skin.uncountable
3. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of East or Southeast Asian descent, considered to be overly assimilated and subservient to white authority.Synonyms: Twinkiecountablederogatoryethnicsluruncountable
4. (Malaysia, Singapore, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese descent who cannot speak Mandarin or any Chinese dialectMalaysiaSingaporecountablederogatoryethnicsluruncountable
5. (slang) The penis.Examples: "The fact that the cop bought O'Brien a beer after feeling of his banana suggests that it must have been a promising one"; "His you-know-what turned soft .. his eight o'clock class was the last thing on his mind five minutes ago, when his banana wasn't overripe."; "Most of the gang were trying their best to shag the girls. One boy was sitting in a tree playing with himself and another was asking a table of teenagers if they would like to see his banana."countableslanguncountable
6. (sports) A banana kick.countableuncountable
noun (English)
1. (informal, humorous, derogatory, often attributively) One who objects to the building of any structure in their neighbourhood or a certain type of structure anywhere, especially in public policy debate.Examples: "David Taylor (Letters, January 23) does not appear to be aware that the NIMBY syndrome, with all its parochial overtones, has been superseded by the all embracing BANANA syndrome – Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone."; "Communities have gone far beyond the NIMBY, or not-in-my-backyard, syndrome. Jeff Langholtz, of EPA's Hazardous Site Control Division said, "Right now they don't want us to build them anywhere." Langholtz called the latest in public thinking "BANANA" – build-absolutely-nothing-anywhere-near-anything. Those opposed to incinerators are more organized than ever, he added."; "Unfortunately, in some areas you can expect the NIMBY fervor to grow into BANANAs—Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody. The ultimate result? Unless national security and economic issues intervene, we'll continue to rely more and more on imported fuel and the price of energy is most apt to climb higher. The high price of BANANAs, in the end, will not only be our dependence on foreign oil, but our economic vulnerability."Synonyms: NIMBYattributivederogatoryhumorousinformaloften
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Definition source: Wiktionary