| 单词 | alley apple |
| 释义 | > as lemmasalley apple alley apple n. U.S. slang (a) a rock, stone, or piece of rubble found in an alley and used as a missile; (b) a piece of horse manure; cf. road apples n. at road n. Compounds 6 (now rare and historical). ΚΠ 1913 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 20 Oct. 1/2 Insulted at this rude reception, O'Sullivan walked out of the hotel, picked up a number of ‘alley apples’ and used the hotel windows as targets. 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 7 Dec. 28/3 For the next sixty days..a brick-tossing seaman can sit in a cell in the City Jail and regret his marksmanship with an ‘alley apple’. 1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 3/2 Alley apple,..a piece of horse manure. 1987 Eng. Today July 41/2 Alley apple is long gone, along with the equine emissions it described. 2011 D. T. Hardison Officer's Love Story xxix. 553 We bombarded them with the rice like we were throwing alley apples. < as lemmas |
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