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fruit noun- a homosexual, especially an obviously homosexual male person US, 1900
- She walked with a swagger and he minced his way to the sidewalk holding on to her arm. Fruit. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 70, 1947
- [T]old us about conditions there, how when girls go fruit they put em in cottages alone, all girls go fruit, black girls go fruit for mexican girls. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to John Clellon Holmes, p. 338, 8 February 1952
- “He’s a panhandler and a fruit. A disgrace to the Jewish race.” — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 68, 1953
- He asked Vinnie, laughing and slapping him on the shoulder, who that fruit was that was with them the other night and Vinnie told him she was just one of the queens from uptown, one a Georgetts friends. — Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn, pp. 168–169, 1957
- It was an uninviting prospect. The old fruit must be forty. — Mary McCarthy, The Group, p. 89, 1963
- And malehustlers (“fruithustlers”/“studhustlers”: the various names for the masculine hustlers looking for lonely fruits to score from)[.] — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 100, 1963
- Enclosed please find cine script by yrs truly and a crafty old fruit. — Terry Southern, Now Ddig This, p. 49, 1964
- “Why there are some guys–some guys I know right at school–who’ll sell their ass to some fruit for twenty bucks, just because they’re too lazy to get a job.” — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 149, 1968
- The nuns, he explained as cavalierly as possible, were “some crazy friends of Mona’s.” And, yes, they were men. “Fruits?” — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 268, 1978
- This twisted old fruit here tells me that you have fucked up my reservations. — This is Spinal Tap, 1984
- Hey, fruit alert! — Bull Durham, 1988
- — Multicultural Management Program Fellows, Dictionary of Cautionary Words and Phrases, 1989
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 54, 1996
- What were once quaintly called fruits. These days you could be upfront about being gay[.] — Stewart Home, Sex Kick [britpulp], p. 224, 1999
- an eccentric or even mentally unstable person US, 1959
A shortening of FRUITCAKE. ▶ do your fruit to go mad; to lose your temper UK, 1978 Probably suggested by BANANAS
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