Apple

Apple Meanings:

• The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones
• Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree
• Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple
• Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold
• To grow like an apple; to bear apples
• A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.
• Any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing produced by a plant such as a gall or cone, especially if produced by a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc. 1585, Richard Eden (translating a 1555 work by Peter Martyr), Decades of the New World, v: Venemous apples wherwith they poyson theyr arrows.
• 1658, trans. Giambattista della Porta, Natural Magick, I.16: In Persia there grows a deadly tree, whose Apples are Poison, and present death.
• Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica, such as a globe, ball, or breast. (baseball, slang, obsolete) The ball in baseball. 1990, "The Telltale Head" (The Simpsons season 1 episode 8) - Hey Dad! What do you say we toss the old apple around, huh? Sound like fun?
• (informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.
• (Christianity) The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.
• A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
• (in the plural, Cockney rhyming slang) Short for apples and pears (“stairs”).
• (derogatory, ethnic slur) A Native American or redskinned person who acts or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.
• (a tree of the genus Malus): malus
• (transitive, intransitive) To make or become apple-like.
• (obsolete) To form buds, bulbs, or fruit.
• (ethnic slur): coconut, Oreo, banana, Twinkie
• [slang] The alternative to the orange.
• [slang] A round, edible fruit that, when eaten once a day, keeps the doctor away.
• [slang] A greedy-ass company that makes a shit tone of money and over-prices their products
• [slang] World's #1 toy manufacturer.
• [slang] A sweet fruit, liked by many, opposed equally. The colors of an apple can vary from red, green, and yellow. Apples are also grown in trees.
• [slang] The company that makes MacBooks and stuff. So yeah.
• [slang] The company that purposely creates new products that have the ability to have top of the line technology in them, but are held back to increase revenue.
• [slang] Red on the outside, white on the inside. A pejorative term used by Native Americans towards other Native Americans accused of "acting white," which would include such things as excelling in school, getting and holding a job, staying out jail, not drinking & drugging, and behaving appropriately in daily interactions with people of other races. Similar to the use of Oreo by African Americans.