eggplants

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

   Synonyms:

   aubergine, brinjal, baingan, brown jolly, baigan, bhaigan, bangun, melongene

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.