palm oil

palm oil

noun
1.
a yellow butterlike oil derived from the fruit of the oil palm and used as an edible fat and for making soap, candles, etc.
2.
oil obtained from various species of palm.

Origin:
1620–30
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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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.
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palm oil
 
n
a yellow butter-like oil obtained from the fruit of the oil palm, used as an edible fat and in soap

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palm-oil definition


  1. n.
    a bribe; a tip. : How much palm-oil does it take to get this deed recorded in reasonable time?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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