cherry

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.

   "Well, Dangerfield, in less than an hour I'm off in search of my fortune. Jesus, I'm excited, like I was going to lose my cherry. Woke up this morning with an erection that almost touched the ceiling."

2. 2
   noun

   A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.

   Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v#95;1#92;inT#95;1

3. 3
   noun

   A red cricket ball.

   The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry.

4. 4
   noun

   A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.

   "What do you think?" he asked as he wove through traffic, matching Sanford's speed but without the benefit of a flashing cherry on the roof of his car.

5. 5
   noun

   The burning tip of a cigarette.

   I'm horrified: Dag is burning holes in the roof of the car with the cherry of his cigarette.

6. 6
   adj

   In excellent condition; mint condition.

   A few years earlier, I’d restored my ’65 Mustang convertible to cherry condition—fire engine red, with matching tuck-and-roll—and I wasn’t surprised that it drew attention.

7. 7
   name

   A female given name from English, a pet form of Charity, also interpreted as a flower name.

   'As you knows Mrs Chuzzlewit, you knows, p’raps, what her chris’en name is?' Mrs Gamp observed. 'Charity,' said Bailey. 'That it ain’t!' cried Mrs Gamp. 'Cherry, then,' said Bailey. 'Cherry's short for it. It’s all the same.'

8. 8
   adj

   of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange)

Etymology

From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirsijā, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise, Giresun, and kirsch.