coconut
English
Alternative forms
- cocoanut (dated)
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkoʊ.kə.nʌt/, [ˈkʰoʊ̯.kə.nʌt]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/, [ˈkʰəʉ̯.kə.nʌt]
- Rhymes: -ʌt
Noun
coconut (countable and uncountable, plural coconuts)
- A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
- A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
- (uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.
- The coconut palm.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or dark-skinned person who acts “white” (Caucasian), alluding to the fact that a coconut is brown on the outside and white on the inside.
- (South Africa, Australia, derogatory) A black person who thinks or acts "white" (European).
- 8 June 2016, "Containment", Cleverman episode 2 (Waruu West speaking to half-brother Koen West)
- Your mum is a white whore, you coconut.
- 8 June 2016, "Containment", Cleverman episode 2 (Waruu West speaking to half-brother Koen West)
- (New Zealand, derogatory) A Pacific islander.
- (slang) A female breast.
- (slang) The human head (often used in cricket broadcasts when a ball hits or nearly hits a batsman on the head).
- 2007, Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness #2, page 19
- [Ashley J. Williams shoots a zombified version of the Winter Soldier in the head.]
- Dazzler: Oh my God...thank you! I-i-is he--
- Ashley J. Williams: A double-barrel boomstick blast straight through the coconut? Trust me, babe--he's not comin' back from that one.
- 2007, Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness #2, page 19
Derived terms
Translations
fruit of coco palm
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shelled seed
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edible flesh of coconut fruit
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coconut palm — see coconut palm
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