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egg-plant

egg-plant is the alternative spelling of eggplant.

Meaning of eggplant

Noun

eggplant (countable and uncountable, plural eggplants)

  1. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Philippines, US) The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.
    • Some fun meatless recipes include jackfruit sandwiches in place of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.”2020 May 19, Lisa Drayer, “How to eat less meat and more plants”, in CNN
  2. (Canada, US) A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
  3. (US, derogatory, offensive, slang) A black person; used mainly by Italian-Americans.
    • 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.1993, Quentin Tarantino, True Romance, spoken by Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper)
  4. A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall.

Forms of egg-plant

pluralegg-plants

Questions about egg-plant

What is egg-plant the alternative spelling of?
Egg-plant is the alternative spelling of eggplant.

Words near egg-plant in the dictionary

  1. egg-hot
  2. egg-in-a-basket
  3. egg-in-a-hole
  4. egg-in-the-basket
  5. egg-in-the-hole
  6. egg-plant
  7. egg-plants
  8. egg-shaped
  9. egg-straordinary
  10. egg-tastic
  11. egg-timer

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