Apple, the
apple, the
related terms
the big apple
noun phrase
new york city •popularized in the 1970s as a nickname: new york is the big apple/ young musicians storming into the apple (1909+)
a jitterbug dance of the mid1930s
[apparently fr jazz musicians’ term apple for a city, esp a city in the north; the dance may be so called from a harlem club of the same name]
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- Apple-pie-and-motherhood
apple-pie-and-motherhood modifier having obvious and unexceptionable virtue: they’ll always vote yes on an apple-pie-and-motherhood issue
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noun (southwest english, dialect) a wasp
- Applejack cap
applejack cap noun phrase a round, usually knitted and bright-colored cap with a wide peak and a pompom; bop cap (black)
- Apples
well or fine; under control. the usually round, red or yellow, edible fruit of a small tree, malus sylvestris, of the rose family. the tree, cultivated in most temperate regions. the fruit of any of certain other species of tree of the same genus. any of these trees. any of various other similar fruits, or […]