释义 |
pineapple noun- a hand grenade, especially a MK-2 hand grenade or Type 59grenade US, 1918
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 47, 1945
- We’d need some arms and stuff, some real factory-made heaters and a couple of machine guns and maybe some pineapples. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 53, 1959
- All Whiskey j. carried was a knapsack and Claymore bag filled with grenades, both the old pineapples and the newer smooth-side sort[.] — Larry Heinemann, Close Quarters, p. 46, 1977
- “ MK-two,” Franklin said, “they call a pineapple.” He looked at Jack, offering him the grenade, and grinned. — Elmore Leonard, Bandits, p. 359, 1987
- “ Fucking hell!!!!!!” I screamed diving head first into the tarmac as far away from the pineapple as I could possibly sling myself. — Danny King, The Bank Robber Diaries, p. 217, 2002
- a combination of cocaine and heroin US
- At this time tooting the boy along with the girl was called “PINEAPPLE.” — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 70, 1973
- a male homosexual UK
Perhaps as a specialisation of FRUIT, possibly punning on anal sex as “taking the ROUGH END OF THE PINEAPPLE - — Leslie Thomas, Arthur McCann and all his Women, 1972
- a fifty dollar note AUSTRALIA, 1992
From its yellowish colour. - Could you float me a pineapple? — www.abc.net.au/wordmap, 2003
- a chapel UK: SCOTLAND
Glasgow rhyming slang, with a stress on the second and third syllables. - — New Society, 15 April 1982
- He’s away to the pineapple. — Michael Munro, The Original Patter, 1985
- in electric line work, a spool insulator US
- — A.B. Chance Co., Lineman’s Slang Dictionary, p. 13, 1980
- unemployment benefit UK, 1937
- — John Ayto, The Oxford Dictionary of Slang, p. 200, 1998
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