eggplant

Etymology

From egg + plant, originally applied only to the white-colored, egg-shaped variety.

noun

1. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The plant Solanum melongena.
2. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The edible fruit of the Solanum melongena: an aubergine.
3. (Canada, US) A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
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4. (US, slang, derogatory, offensive) A black person (used mainly by Italian-Americans).
   Hey. Yeah. And, and your great-great-great-great grandmother fucked a nigger, ho, ho, yeah, and she had a half-nigger kid… now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you, you're part eggplant. 1993, Quentin Tarantino, True Romance, spoken by Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper)
   "Why am I not surprised?" This was the limit. "You know, I'm black enough for his family to yell eggplant-this and nigger-that at me," she said. 2004, Wendy Coakley-Thompson, Back to Life
   What else can he do? But Hopper continues his riff. "Sicilians still carry that nigger gene . . . Your ancestors are niggers. You're part eggplant." 2006, Jerome Charyn, Raised by wolves: the turbulent art and times of Quentin Tarantino
5. (skateboarding, snowboarding) A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall