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/ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/
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/ˈt͡ʃeɹi/
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- Australia
- New-Zealand
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/ˈt͡ʃɛɾe/
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/ˈt͡ʃɛɾi/
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- Wales
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ˈt͡ʃɛɹi
Noun
A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
The wood of a cherry tree.
Cherry red.
The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
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"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."
Nothing stands in your way when you're a boy / Clothes always fit ya / Life is a pop of the cherry when you're a boy
Philips—Sergeant Gerheim's black, silver-tongued House Mouse—is telling everybody about the one thousand cherries he has busted.
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So what bitch, I busted your cherry – / Hell fucking no, I don’t wanna git married
A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
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Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v#95;1#92;inT#95;1
Step 3: Output the tree T. The edge lengths of T are determined recursively: If (x,y) is a cherry connected to node z as in Step 2
A red cricket ball.
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The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry.
Players are back out and it's Harmison to have first go with the cherry.
A reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball.
Usage- Slang
A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
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"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.
“This is a cartel operation,” Hackett said as Larson activated the dash-mounted cherry
The burning tip of a cigarette.
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I'm horrified: Dag is burning holes in the roof of the car with the cherry of his cigarette.
A woman’s breasts.
Usage- euphemistic
- Slang
Adjective
Containing or having the taste of cherries.
Of a bright red color; cherry red.
In excellent condition; mint condition.
Usage- Informal
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- of cars
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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.
All of my action figures are cherry
Verb
To redden; to infuse a cherrylike color to something.
Usage- Dated
- Obsolete
- Transitive
To cheer, to delight.
Usage- Dated
- Obsolete
- Transitive
Adjective
of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
Noun
wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry
- Broader terms
any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
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a red fruit with a single hard stone
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a red the color of ripe cherries
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