banana

noun

1. (countable, error-lua-timeout, uncountable)An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.

   “Jimmy had a banana for breakfast.”

   “I'll need a few things. I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana.”

2. (Canada, Ireland, UK, US, countable, error-lua-timeout, uncountable)An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
3. (countable, error-lua-timeout, uncountable)The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas, a plant of the genus Musa (but sometimes also including plants from Ensete), which has large, elongated leaves.
4. (error-lua-timeout, uncountable)A yellow color, like that of a banana's skin.
5. (countable, derogatory, error-lua-timeout, ethnic, slur, uncountable)A person of East or Southeast Asian descent, considered to be overly assimilated and subservient to white authority.
6. (Malaysia, Singapore, countable, derogatory, error-lua-timeout, ethnic, slur, uncountable)A person of Chinese descent who cannot speak Mandarin or any Chinese dialect
7. (countable, error-lua-timeout, slang, uncountable)The penis.

   “The fact that the cop bought O'Brien a beer after feeling of his banana suggests that it must have been a promising one”

   “His you-know-what turned soft .. his eight o'clock class was the last thing on his mind five minutes ago, when his banana wasn't overripe.”

   “Most of the gang were trying their best to shag the girls. One boy was sitting in a tree playing with himself and another was asking a table of teenagers if they would like to see his banana.”

   “He adds that after eating his banana (sucking his penis), he wants anal sex, but she asks him to lick her pussy. Then he tells her no because it is disgusting.”

8. (countable, error-lua-timeout, uncountable)A banana kick.
9. (countable, error-lua-timeout, uncountable)A banana equivalent dose.
10. (colloquial, countable, error-lua-timeout, uncountable)A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).
11. (countable, error-lua-timeout, uncountable)An incorrectly held handstand, often seen in beginners.
12. (attributive, derogatory, humorous, informal, often)One who objects to the building of any structure in their neighbourhood or a certain type of structure anywhere, especially in public policy debate.

    “David Taylor (Letters, January 23) does not appear to be aware that the NIMBY syndrome, with all its parochial overtones, has been superseded by the all embracing BANANA syndrome – Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone.”

    “Communities have gone far beyond the NIMBY, or not-in-my-backyard, syndrome. Jeff Langholtz, of EPA's Hazardous Site Control Division said, "Right now they don't want us to build them anywhere." Langholtz called the latest in public thinking "BANANA" – build-absolutely-nothing-anywhere-near-anything. Those opposed to incinerators are more organized than ever, he added.”

    “Unfortunately, in some areas you can expect the NIMBY fervor to grow into BANANAs—Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody. The ultimate result? Unless national security and economic issues intervene, we'll continue to rely more and more on imported fuel and the price of energy is most apt to climb higher. The high price of BANANAs, in the end, will not only be our dependence on foreign oil, but our economic vulnerability.”

    “Opposition to these projects is increasingly the norm as opposed to the exception and is not simply limited to a few environmentaly sensitive and wealthy areas such as Southern California. Cynics have observed that the NIMBY movement is evolving into a BANANA (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone) or even a NOPE (nowhere on planet Earth) movement with regard to controversial infrastructure siting.”

    “They don’t support bike lanes, sidewalks, traffic calming measures, or traffic widening measures. They complain about the lack of communication from city hall but also shout down the mayor and city staff whenever they attempt to explain their policy. You can summarize their views on zoning and new buildings as BANANAs: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.”

adj

1. (error-lua-timeout, not-comparable)Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

   “Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.”

   “He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.”

   “[...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.”

name

1. A surname.
2. A village on Kiritimati, Kiribati.

   “The principal economic activity is copra production, the Government copra plantation covering some 5,170 ha. The population in 1989 was estimated at 2,000, the great majority of whom live in London, Banana and Poland villages in the west.”