n. a new soldier in a desert war; a soldier new to the desert in wartime. (From the Persian Gulf War. See also cherry.) : About 5,000 desert cherries arrived last week. Something is going to happen soon.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Desert cherryis always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.