doughnut

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1. A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.

   2018, Karen Scott, Margaret Webb, Clare Kostelnick, Long-Term Caring: Residential, Home and Community Aged Care, 4th Edition, Australia and New Zealand Edition, Elsevier Australia, page 227, The prostate gland lies just below the bladder and is shaped like a doughnut.

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   The soldiers, drawn up in hollow square—how apt is this word hollow, when applied to men who have fasted, in view of promised doughnuts!—received the procession, which consisted of music, then the ladies, then the doughnuts.

   1865, Frank B. Goodrich, The Tribute Book, Derby & Miller, page 45

   One American student sought my help to take the work further in his school science project, in which he studied how doughnuts differ from cookies.

   2003, Len Fisher, How to Dunk a Doughnut, U.S. edition, Arcade Publishing, page 2

2. Any object in the shape of a torus.
   1. attributivefigurativelyA circular life raft.

      He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. A doughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him.

      1996, John Long, Close Shaves: Classic Stories on the Edge, page 2

      Synonyms: ring, torus, toroid

   2. figurativelynatural sciencesA toroidal vacuum chamber.

      In about 1951, the same company sealed into their vacuum doughnuts the regenerative peelers so that X-ray beams or electron beams could be obtained with the sealed off commercial tubes used in […]

      2012, Edward Creutz, Nuclear Instrumentation I, page 213

      Synonyms: ring, torus, toroid

   3. AustraliaCanadaUSfigurativelyA peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.

      Synonyms: ring, torus, toroid

   4. figurativelyA spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.

      Synonyms: ring, torus, toroid

   5. figurativelyA kind of tyre for an airplane.

      The advantage of the doughnuts was that they spread the weight of the aeroplane over a much larger area of ground, causing less damage to grass, and making them less prone to bogging down in wet conditions.

      1975, Flight International (volume 107, part 2)

      Synonyms: ring, torus, toroid

   6. figurativelyA shaper for making hair into a ponytail or bun

      Place the hair doughnut/ring around your ponytail

      2014, Of Beauty & Nothingness

      Synonyms: ring, torus, toroid

   7. figurativelyslangvulgarA vulva; by extension, a woman's virginity.

      Make my jelly roll with your doughnut hole.

      2008, Diana Skylar, Seduction, page 155

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      When I was at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . . . there was a lady student there — and I had designs on her doughnut

      1993, Ken Campbell, Pigspurt, Or, Six Pigs from Happiness

      My mother was sixteen when she lost her doughnut. Said she waited till she was legal. She was itching to do it she said.

      1994, Plays International, volume 10, page 39

      Girl, now you've reached puberty Your doughnut should cover itself With curly hair, with soft hair.

      1997, Josiane Racine, Viramma, Life of an Untouchable, page 33

      The bearded clan's men approaches in order to munch the carpet, kiss the kitten, and suck the wet doughnut! You open your legs wide showing the view that makes me drool!

      2012, Ole Eddie Kane The Next Generation, Moments and Fantasies, page 38

      Synonyms: ring, torus, toroid, axe wound, badly packed kebab, bearded clam, beaver, beef curtains

   8. figurativelyslangvulgarA puffy anus with the outward shape of a donut; more generally, any anus.

      Synonyms: ring, torus, toroid, donut hole

3. colloquialA foolish or stupid person; an idiot.

   Nice going, you doughnut!

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   You fucking doughnut, of course you don't microwave a salad!

   2012, Gordon Ramsay, Kitchen Nightmares "Michons"

4. A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
5. slangentertainmentA whole note.

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1. To encircle something.

   Press people doughnutted around him.

   2003, New Statesman, page 48

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   […] even the notorious ‘doughnuting’ (gathering around the Member speaking) appears to have fallen out of fashion.

   1995, F[rederick] F[ernand] Ridley, Michael Rush, editors, British Government and Politics Since 1945: Changes in Perspective, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 163

   My body flew like a rag doll as he relentlessly and with purpose kept doughnuting the car in wilder circles.

   2003, April Smith, Good Morning, Killer, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 341

   At 12.30 in the afternoon – half-an-hour earlier and she could have been accused of perpetrating an April Fool’s swansong deception – Hughes stood up in the Commons, doughnutted by as ugly a bunch of sad or scowling Blair babes as you could gather.

   2004, Steve Moxon, “Storyline: Bev Gets Knotted”, in The Great Immigration Scandal, Imprint Academic, →ISBN, page 195

   The desiccated scoreboard flag wiggled atop an Impala that doughnutted the fifty-yard line.

   2009, Jamie Iredell, Prose. Poems. A Novel., Orange Alert Press, →ISBN, page 27

   Ms Lumley’s co-campaigners were behind him, and had arranged it so there were pictures of injured Gurkhas behind each of his ears. What a terrible fate for any politician, to be doughnutted by hideous lacerations!

   2009 May 8, Simon Hoggart, Send Up the Clowns: Parliamentary Sketches 2007–2011, Guardian Books, published 2011, →ISBN

1. UKinformalThe head office of the GCHQ in Cheltenham, UK.

   Former hackers as well as government suits roam the curved corridors of “the Doughnut”, as GCHQ’s base is known.

   2015 November 19, Steve Rose, “The future is round: why modern architecture turned doughnut-shaped”, in The Guardian