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countable and uncountable, plural bananas
An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
(Canada, US, UK, Ireland) In particular, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar, which may be eaten raw, as distinct from e.g. a plantain for cooking. examples
The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas, a plant of the genus Musa (but sometimes also including plants from Ensete), which has large, elongated leaves. examples
(uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin. examples
(derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of East Asian descent, especially an ethnic Chinese from a Western country who does not speak Chinese, considered to be overly assimilated and subservient to White authority. examples
(slang) The penis. quotations
The fact that the cop bought O'Brien a beer after feeling of his banana suggests that it must have been a promising one
1986, Christopher Street, Cop Feels of Three Men's "Privates", volume 10
His you-know-what turned soft .. his eight o'clock class was the last thing on his mind five minutes ago, when his banana wasn't overripe.
2012, Sarah Miynowski, Fishbowl, page 36
Most of the gang were trying their best to shag the girls. One boy was sitting in a tree playing with himself and another was asking a table of teenagers if they would like to see his banana.
2014, Anthony Bunko, Lord Forgive Me, page 71
He adds that after eating his banana (sucking his penis), he wants anal sex, but she asks him to lick her pussy. Then he tells her no because it is disgusting.
2017, Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture, page 234
(sports) A banana kick. examples
(nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose. examples
(computer science, colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation). examples
not comparable
Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight. quotations examples
Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.
2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, page 155
He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.
2002, Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor, page 53
[...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.
2006, Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer, page 247