strawberry
see also: Strawberry
Pronunciation Noun
Strawberry
Proper noun
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see also: Strawberry
Pronunciation Noun
strawberry
- The sweet, usually red, edible fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
- They went to pick strawberries today.
- Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
- She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen.
- A dark pinkish red colour, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
- (rare) Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
- (US, slang) A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.
- 1992, Kathleen Boyle, Homeless crack cocaine abusers (page 40)
- […] infamous in Los Angeles through media reports: the crack houses and "strawberries" (women who exchange sex for crack) […]
- 1997, Peter Collier, David Horowitz, The Race Card (page 91)
- The desperate addiction associated with the drug has made "strawberries" — prostitutes who work for crack — fixtures of the […]
- 1992, Kathleen Boyle, Homeless crack cocaine abusers (page 40)
- French: fraise
- German: Erdbeere
- Italian: fragola
- Portuguese: morango
- Russian: земляни́ка
- Spanish: fresa, frutilla (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Southern Colombian Andes, Uruguay)
- French: fraisier
- German: Erdbeere
- Italian: fragola
- Portuguese: morangueiro
- Russian: земляни́ка
- Spanish: fresa, frutilla
- Portuguese: morango
- Russian: клубничный
strawberry (not comparable)
- Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.
- I'd like a large strawberry shake.
- Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to resemble the taste of strawberries.
- Of a color similar to ripened strawberries.
- The strawberry lipstick makes her look younger.
- German: Erdbeer-, erdbeerig
- Portuguese: de morango
- Russian: земляни́чный
strawberry (strawberries, present participle strawberrying; past and past participle strawberried)
- (intransitive) To gather strawberries.
- 1994, New England Review (volume 16, page 35)
- We strawberried in Michigan woods with our fat nanny, and in spring we gathered sand dollars on Daytona, passed smiling into Kodachrome.
- 1994, New England Review (volume 16, page 35)
- (intransitive) To turn a dark pinkish-red.
- 1986, Les Whitten, Sometimes a Hero (page 352)
- My hips and elbows were strawberrying painfully.
- 1986, Les Whitten, Sometimes a Hero (page 352)
Strawberry
Proper noun
- CDP in Marin County, California.
- CDP in Tuolumne County, California.
- An unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California.
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