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apple
noun- a person US, 1887
Usually heard with a qualifying adjective such as “bad” or “rotten”. - I got a nephew. A brainy apple and a good kid. — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 114, 1949
- You may be a rough apple, but I can make your face look like it’s been run through a grinder[.] — Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick, p. 20, 1950
- Anyhow, he knew the good kids from the bad apples. — San Francisco News, p. 11, 17 January 1950
- In removing what few “bad apples” there may be, the union would be serving two good purposes.” — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, p. 6G, 14 January 1953
- [T]he hearing should not be interpreted as an indictment of all auto dealers because of the activities of a few “bad apples.” — San Francisco Examiner, 4 August 1960
- the gullible victim of a confidence swindle US, 1992
- So I’m square, JD told himself resentfully. An apple. — Malcolm Braly, It’s Cold Out There, p. 41, 1966
- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 10, 1992
- a native American Indian who curries favour with the white establishment by embracing white cultural values US
A variation on a theme – red on the outside, white on the inside. - — Maledicta, p. 124, Summer 1980: “Racial and ethnic slurs: regional awareness and variations”
- a particular type of MDMA, the recreational drug best known as ecstasy UK
Sometimes embellished to “apple E” or “green apple”. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 23, 1996
- Wha’ y’after? Special K. Es ... Apples. Got some killer Doves. — Nick Barlay, Curvy Lovebox, p. 187, 1997
- [A]ll that happened when the adverts came out saying that Apple Es killed Leah Betts was that you couldn’t buy one for love nor money cos every raver wanted one. There was a lot of shit pills out there and those ads were just saying to people that apples were pukka. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 72, 2000
- a capsule of secobarbital sodium (trade name Seconal), a central nervous system depressant US
- — Edith A. Folb, Runnin’ Down Some Lines, p. 228, 1980
- — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 13, 1986
- a self-propelled barracks barge US
From the ship’s official designation as an “APL”. - The men climbed out, walked over the metal roofing of the tango boats and up the ladders to the LST’s and “apples.” — Ronald J. Glasser, 365 Days, pp. 28–29, 1971
- the vagina US
- — Edith A. Folb, Runnin’ Down Some Lines, p. 228, 1980
- a one-hundred dollar note NEW ZEALAND
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 7, 1998
- the heart NEW ZEALAND, 1989
An abbreviation of “apple tart”, and by rhyming slang to “heart”. - — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 2, 1999
- a citizens’ band radio enthusiast of unlimited zeal US
- — Radio Shack, CBer’s Handy Atlas/Dictionary, p. 8, 1976
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