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Foxtrot in a cracking guitar arrangement, one having its roots in Barbados
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grapefruit
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE fresh ▪ The standards are as good as any first class hotel. Fresh grapefruit , bacon and eggs and piping hot coffee and rolls. ■ NOUN juice ▪ She willed there to be grapefruit juice in the fridge. ▪ The hamburger ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Grapefruit were a London -based British band of the late 1960s. Their brand of music was a typical late 1960s blend of rock , which they often fused with psychedelic effects such as phasers and vocoders , or classical arrangements.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1814, from grape + fruit . So called because it grows in clusters. The fruit itself was known since 1693 (in Hans Sloane's catalogue of Jamaican plants); presumably it originated there from chance hybrids between other cultivated citrus. It was known by ...
Usage examples of grapefruit.
He walked bowlegged, because his scrotum was the size of a grapefruit.
A compote of cutup oranges, grapefruit, apples and cantaloupe was attractively arranged in a Tiffany bowl.
Indica also stocked her limited-edition book Grapefruit and had some of the Fluxus boxes and posters containing her work on the shelves.
If you make orange juice or, even better, grapefruit juice, save the peels and all the seeds.
One afternoon about three days ago they showed up at my door, with no warning, and loaded about forty pounds of supplies into the room: two cases of Mexican beer, four quarts of gin, a dozen grapefruits, and enough speed to alter the outcome of six Super Bowls.
They sat together on the floor in front of the Tube, with a chair-high bag of Chee-tos and a sixpack of grapefruit soda from the health-food store, watching baseball highlights, commercials, and weather no rain again till it was time for the kissoff story.
There were tomatoes, cucumbers, oranges, pineapples, and grapefruit out there.
The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half-pound of either sausage, bacon or corned beef hash with diced chilies, a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of key lime pie, two margaritas and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert.
Doc Savage moved among the palmettos, doubled under a scrawny tree on which grapefruit was growing not much larger than lemons, and unexpectedly found the one guard which Satz had posted.
The chokidar brought a warm bottled grapefruit juice for Frazer to drink.
Deprived of the ambivalent allure of his face—that plowed moon sewn with seeds of nettle and narcissus, that pink grapefruit carved with an assassin's dagger—she was free now to concentrate on his feet, and she focused on his grubby Converses, sometimes separately, sometimes both together, alert to their position vis-à-vis one another, vis-à-vis a crack in the pavement.
The lakes were bordered by tall Dade County pines, and the residents had planted their yards with orange, grapefruit, and mango trees, hedges of Barbados cherry and screw-leaf crotons, and several varieties of palms, including a few stately Royals.
Morgan brought in a half grapefruit bedded in ice, set it down before him.
The remaining hominid was a male, his penis a mere nub in the Brillo pad of his pubic hair, his scrotum as round and intricately puckered as a rotten grapefruit.
There was grapefruit, bacon, waffles, maple syrup, cinnamon toast and weak coffee.