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road apples

road apples is the plural of road apple.

Meaning of road apple

Noun

road apple (plural road apples)

  1. (dated, in plural, often, slang) Horse manure, especially when deposited on a road.
    • Samples 7–12 contained coarsely chewed plant material; several closely resembled the "road apples" of horse and burro.1964, P. S. Martin, F. W. Sharrock, “Pollen Analysis of Prehistoric Human Feces: A New Approach to Ethnobotany”, in American Antiquity, volume 30, number 2, page 171
    Synonyms:
    street apple

Questions about road apples

What is road apples the plural of?
Road apples is the plural of road apple.

Words near road apples in the dictionary

  1. road accident
  2. road accidents
  3. road agent
  4. road agents
  5. road apple
  6. road apples
  7. road bed
  8. road bicycle
  9. road bicycles
  10. road bike
  11. road bikes

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