Apricot

/ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt/ · noun

Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

1. 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.
2. The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
3. A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
4. A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
5. (sniper slang) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
6. (slang, UK, Australia, dated, usually in the plural) A testicle.
7. Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

Example Sentences

pickled apricots

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.

I'd aim right for the apricot. The medulla. You'd die instantly.

“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.

Hot water has always made my apricots sag.

Maybe before I die they'll have some sort of mechanical cock and balls because all of the steroids that I used, put my apricots and kielbasa out of commission.

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• apricots
• abricock
• apricock
• more apricot
• most apricot

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