watermelon
Pluralwatermelons
- 1A large round fruit with a hard green skin and sweet, juicy red flesh full of black seeds.
Like a big green ball that is sweet and red inside.
We sliced a watermelon for the picnic.
The watermelon was so juicy it dripped down her chin.
- 2A trailing plant grown in warm places for its large, sweet fruit.
My grandfather grows watermelon along the back fence.
The watermelon spread its vines across the whole garden.
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- 3A pinkish-red color, like the bright flesh of the ripe fruit.
Like the bright pink-red you see when you cut the fruit open.
She painted her bedroom walls a bright watermelon.
He picked a watermelon shirt for the summer party.
- 4A slang word for a woman's breast.
One watermelon nearly slipped out of her loose tank top.
The locker-room jokes about her watermelons embarrassed everyone.
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- 5An insulting word for an environmentalist who is really a socialist at heart.
Critics on the radio called the senator a watermelon.
He dismissed the protest leaders as watermelons pushing old ideas.
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- 6A project that looks on time but is really falling behind in some parts.
The manager warned that the new app was a watermelon.
Several watermelons slipped past the review board before anyone noticed.
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Origin
From the 1610s, made from the words "water" and "melon".