carrots

Noun

carrot (countable and uncountable, plural carrots)

1. A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.
   • In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 42

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2. A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).
3. (figuratively) Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something.
   • Essentially, lawmakers replaced the sticks with carrots.2022 August 7, Coral Davenport, Lisa Friedman, “Five Decades in the Making: Why It Took Congress So Long to Act on Climate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
4. (UK, derogatory, slang) Someone from a rural background.
5. (UK, slang) A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London.
6. (slang) A redhead; a ginger-haired person

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