Plum - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|plʌm|
Brit.
|plʌm|
noun
- any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
- any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
- a highly desirable position or assignment
- any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
- a highly desirable position or assignment
a political plum
adverb
- exactly (syn: plumb)
fell plumb in the middle of the puddle
- completely; used as intensifiers (syn: clean, plumb)I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out
Extra examples
Dried plums are also called “prunes.”
That deal is a real plum for the contractor.
His face was fat and plum.
The first job I had was a real plum.
I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out
Juice oozed out of the plum.
I can't see what there was in it for Mrs Plum.
Plum growers are expecting a bumper harvest this year.
He landed a plum role in a TV mini-series.
Word forms
noun
singular: plum
plural: plums
singular: plum
plural: plums
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