coconut

• cocoanut (dated)

From coco +‎ nut.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ.kə.nʌt/, [ˈkʰoʊ̯.kə.nʌt]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/, [ˈkʰəʉ̯.kə.nʌt]
• Rhymes: -ʌt

coconut (countable and uncountable, plural coconuts)

1. A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
2. A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
3. (uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.
4. The coconut palm.
5. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or dark-skinned person who acts “white” (Caucasian), alluding to the fact that a coconut is brown on the outside and white on the inside.
6. (South Africa, Australia, derogatory) A black person who thinks or acts "white" (European).
   • 8 June 2016, "Containment", Cleverman episode 2 (Waruu West speaking to half-brother Koen West)

     Your mum is a white whore, you coconut.

7. (New Zealand, derogatory) A Pacific islander.
8. (slang) A female breast.
9. (slang) The human head (often used in cricket broadcasts when a ball hits or nearly hits a batsman on the head).
   • 2007, Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness #2, page 19

     [Ashley J. Williams shoots a zombified version of the Winter Soldier in the head.]

     Dazzler: Oh my God...thank you! I-i-is he--

     Ashley J. Williams: A double-barrel boomstick blast straight through the coconut? Trust me, babe--he's not comin' back from that one.

• (acting white): banana, Oreo, Twinkie

• coconut milk
• coconutty

• (cultural pejoratives): banana, Oreo

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