eggplant

plural eggplants · alternative egg-plant

1. AustraliaCanadaNew ZealandPhilippinesUScountableuncountableoccasionally South AsiaThe plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.

   Some fun meatless recipes include jackfruit sandwiches in place of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.”

   2020 May 19, Lisa Drayer, “How to eat less meat and more plants”, in CNN

   Synonyms: aubergine, brinjal, baingan, brown jolly, baigan, bhaigan, bangun, melongene

2. CanadaUScountableuncountableA dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
3. UScountablederogatoryoffensiveslangA black person; used mainly by Italian-Americans.

   "Why am I not surprised?" This was the limit. "You know, I'm black enough for his family to yell eggplant-this and nigger-that at me," she said.

   2004, Wendy Coakley-Thompson, Back to Life

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   Hey. Yeah. And, and your great-great-great-great grandmother fucked a nigger, ho, ho, yeah, and she had a half-nigger kid… now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you, you're part eggplant.

   1993, Quentin Tarantino, True Romance, spoken by Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper)

   What else can he do? But Hopper continues his riff. "Sicilians still carry that nigger gene . . . Your ancestors are niggers. You're part eggplant."

   2006, Jerome Charyn, Raised by wolves: the turbulent art and times of Quentin Tarantino

4. countablehobbiesA 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall.