cherry

plural cherries

1. A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
2. Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
3. The wood of a cherry tree.
4. Cherry red.
5. The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
6. slangVirginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.

   So what bitch, I busted your cherry – / Hell fucking no, I don’t wanna git married

   1986, “Short Side (Blow Job Betty)” (track 5, 6:36–6:43 from the start), in Too Short (lyrics), Raw, Uncut and X-Rated

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   "Well, Dangerfield, in less than an hour I'm off in search of my fortune. Jesus, I'm excited, like I was going to lose my cherry. Woke up this morning with an erection that almost touched the ceiling."

   1965 [1955], J. P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man, New York: Delacorte Press, page 39

   Nothing stands in your way when you're a boy / Clothes always fit ya / Life is a pop of the cherry when you're a boy

   1979, David Bowie, Brian Eno, “Boys Keep Swinging”, in Lodger, performed by David Bowie

   Philips—Sergeant Gerheim's black, silver-tongued House Mouse—is telling everybody about the one thousand cherries he has busted.

   1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 20

7. graph theoryA subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.

   Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v#95;1#92;inT#95;1

   2004, Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp, S Muthukrishnan, Ugur Dogrusoz, Combinatorial Pattern Matching, Berlin […] : Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 210

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   Step 3: Output the tree T. The edge lengths of T are determined recursively: If (x,y) is a cherry connected to node z as in Step 2

   2005, Lior Pachter, Bernd Sturmfels, Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 74

8. slangball gamesA red cricket ball.

   Players are back out and it's Harmison to have first go with the cherry.

   2007, Ben Dirs, “England v West Indies 1st Test”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2016, retrieved 25 Nov 2024

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   The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry.

   2000, Woorkheri Raman, “Indians adopt safety first tactics”, in ESPNcricinfo, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2022, retrieved 25 Nov 2024

9. slangball gamesA reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball.
10. A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.

    “This is a cartel operation,” Hackett said as Larson activated the dash-mounted cherry

    2011, Rick Mofina, In Desperation, Don Mills, Ontario: MIRA, →ISBN, page 44

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    "What do you think?" he asked as he wove through traffic, matching Sanford's speed but without the benefit of a flashing cherry on the roof of his car.

    2009, Sandra Brown, Smash Cut, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 249

    Synonyms: cherrytop

11. The burning tip of a cigarette.

    I'm horrified: Dag is burning holes in the roof of the car with the cherry of his cigarette.

    1991, Douglas Coupland, “Celebrities Die”, in Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 115

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    trying to do sexy pain-based powerplay dynamics with a girl who's quitting smoking so instead of burning me with the cherry while she fucks me she just has to throw her nicotine-free vape battery at my head as hard as possible

    2023 September 22, sapphling, Tumblr, retrieved 15 Sep 2026

12. euphemisticslangA woman’s breasts.

comparative cherrier · comparative more cherry · superlative cherriest · superlative most cherry

1. Containing or having the taste of cherries.
2. Of a bright red color; cherry red.
3. informaloftenIn excellent condition; mint condition.

   All of my action figures are cherry

   2006, “White & Nerdy”, in "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics), Straight Outta Lynwood, performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic

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   A few years earlier, I’d restored my ’65 Mustang convertible to cherry condition—fire engine red, with matching tuck-and-roll—and I wasn’t surprised that it drew attention.

   2003, John Morgan Wilson, Blind Eye, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 108

present singular third person cherries · participle present cherrying · participle past cherried · past cherried

1. datedobsoletetransitiveTo redden; to infuse a cherrylike color to something.
2. datedobsoletetransitiveTo cheer, to delight.

1. A female given name from English, a pet form of Charity, also interpreted as a flower name.

   'As you knows Mrs Chuzzlewit, you knows, p’raps, what her chris’en name is?' Mrs Gamp observed. 'Charity,' said Bailey. 'That it ain’t!' cried Mrs Gamp. 'Cherry, then,' said Bailey. 'Cherry's short for it. It’s all the same.'

   1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC

2. A surname.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona.
   2. A village in Bureau County, Illinois.
   3. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Saint Louis County, Minnesota.
   4. Two townships in Pennsylvania, in Butler County and Sullivan County.
   5. An unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Tennessee.
   6. An unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia.

plural Cherries

1. ball gamessomeone connected with AFC Bournemouth, as a fan, player, coach etc.