Meanings
- attributiveuncountableA blend of cranberry and apple.
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The box lunch always contained enough for a crew of nine: three loaves of bread, a pound of American cheese, a pound of mystery meat (usually something that resembled salami), one jar of smooth peanut butter, one jar of grape jelly, two dozen small bags of airline peanuts (or, occasionally, rock-hard raisins), a dozen boxes of cranberry juice (or cranapple, crangrape, or the like), condiments, and dessert.
1999, Mark A. Hinebaugh, Flying Upside Down: True Tales of an Antarctic Pilot, page 90
Origin
Blend of cranberry + apple, equivalent to cran- + apple, created as a trademark by Ocean Spray.
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