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ap·ples
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əlz
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adjective
Australian
Slang
.
well or fine; under
control
.
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ap·ple
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əl
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noun
1.
the usually round, red or yellow, edible fruit of a small tree,
Malus sylvestris,
of the rose family.
2.
the tree, cultivated in most temperate regions.
3.
the fruit of any of certain other species of tree of the same genus.
4.
any of these trees.
5.
any of various other similar fruits, or fruitlike products or plants, as the
custard apple
,
love apple
,
May apple
,
or
oak apple
.
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6.
anything resembling an apple in size and shape, as a ball, especially a baseball.
7.
Bowling
.
an ineffectively bowled ball.
8.
Slang
.
a red capsule containing a barbiturate, especially secobarbital.
COLLAPSE
Origin:
before 900;
Middle English
appel,
Old English
æppel;
cognate with
Old Frisian,
Dutch
appel,
Old Saxon
apl, appul,
Old High German
apful
(
German
Apfel
), Crimean
Gothic
apel
<
Germanic
*aplu
(akin to
Old Norse
epli
<
*aplja
n
);
Old Irish
ubull
(neuter),
Welsh
afal,
Breton
aval
<
pre-Celtic
*ǫblu;
Lithuanian
óbuolas, -ỹs,
Latvian
âbuol
(
i
)
s
(with reshaped suffix), OPruss
woble,
perhaps Thracian (
din
)
upla,
(
sin
)
upyla
wild pumpkin, OCS (
j
)
ablŭko
(representing
*ablŭ-ko,
neuter) <
Balto-Slavic
*āblu-.
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apples
(ˈæp
ə
lz)
—
pl n
1.
See
apples and pears
2.
informal
(
Austral
), (
NZ
)
she's apples
all is going well
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