coconut

Meaning

Noun

• A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
• A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
• The edible white flesh of this fruit.
• The coconut palm.
• 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.
• A black person who thinks or acts "white" (European).
• A Pacific islander.
• A female breast.
• The human head (often used in cricket broadcasts when a ball hits or nearly hits a batsman on the head).

Origin

• From coco + nut.