donut
Pluraldonuts
UK spellingdoughnut
- 1A piece of fried dough, usually sweet, often shaped like a ring or filled with jelly or cream.
I had a chocolate donut and a glass of milk for breakfast.
Dad brought a box of donuts to the office on Friday.
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- 2Any object shaped like a thick ring with a hole in the middle.
The new space station is a giant donut that turns slowly high above Earth.
He wound the garden hose into a neat donut by the back door.
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- 3A spin of a car or other vehicle in a full circle, or the round tire mark it leaves.
Some teenagers were doing donuts in the empty parking lot.
The next morning, there was a black donut of burned rubber on the road.
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- 4A small spare tire in a car that you use only for a short time.
We put the donut on and drove slowly to the tire shop.
My car only has a donut in the trunk, not a real spare.
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- 5A ring used to help shape hair into a ponytail or a bun.
She pulled her ponytail through the donut and wrapped her hair around it.
I bought a hair donut so I could make a neat bun for dance class.
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- 6A woman's private parts, or the fact that she has never had sex.
She told her friends she was saving her donut for someone she really loved.
The other guys laughed when he made a rude joke about her donut.
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- 8A ring-shaped cushion that people with hemorrhoids often sit on.
After his surgery, Grandpa sat on a donut at the dinner table.
She brought a donut to work so she could sit at her desk without pain.
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Origin
A changed spelling of "doughnut," made from "dough" and "nut." First seen in 1900.