cherry

1. (slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.Examples: ""Well, Dangerfield, in less than an hour I'm off in search of my fortune. Jesus, I'm excited, like I was going to lose my cherry. Woke up this morning with an erection that almost touched the ceiling.""; "Nothing stands in your way when you're a boy / Clothes always fit ya / Life is a pop of the cherry when you're a boy"; "Philips—Sergeant Gerheim's black, silver-tongued House Mouse—is telling everybody about the one thousand cherries he has busted."slang

2. (graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.Examples: "Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v#95;1#92;inT#95;1"; "Step 3: Output the tree T. The edge lengths of T are determined recursively: If (x,y) is a cherry connected to node z as in Step 2"

3. (cricket, slang) A red cricket ball.Examples: "The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry."; "Players are back out and it's Harmison to have first go with the cherry."slang

4. (cricket, slang) A reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball.slang