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countable and uncountable, plural apricots
A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside. examples
The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca examples
(color) A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit. examples
A dog with an orange-coloured coat. examples
(sniper slang) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill. quotations
Seven hundred and seventy-eight yards, though I didn't know the exact measurement at the time, plus the fact that the bullet ripped through the victim's apricot tipped me to the fact that we were probably dealing with an experienced sniper.
2011, Jordan Gray, Unearthed, Harlequin, page 41
I'd aim right for the apricot. The medulla. You'd die instantly.
2012, Eric Puchner, “Beautiful Monsters”, in Tom Perrotta, editor, The Best American Short Stories 2012, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 198
“See the nose?” Slater asked. He’d drawn a face on the watermelon with a Sharpie. “Aim right below it, at the philtrum. That way, the bullet's gonna go straight through and hit the apricot. Carmen told you about the apricot?”In my first lesson. The apricot was the sniper's nickname for the medulla oblongata, the cone-shaped mass of neurons that connected the brain to the spinal cord.
2020, Elise Noble, When the Shadows Fall, Undercover Publishing Limited
(slang, Australia, dated, usually in the plural) A testicle.
comparative more apricot, superlative most apricot
Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot. examples