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  • plum rose
    [from plum-like fruit, which taste of rosewater (Cassidy p.c.)] n. a shrub, Eugenia jambos: 1972 (Durrell 86). ROSE APPLE (Nassau)
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  • plump
    [from plum by hypercorrection) n. plum: We have... hog plumps growing in the yard (COB) (Black) 
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  • plum berry
    n. a tree, Byrsonima lucida, with small reddish, sour fruit : 1977 (Patterson 71). = GUANA PLUM, SWEET MARGARET (Black)
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  • pluck
    [cf. Haitian plimen to pluck, have inter­course HCEFD; cf. DAS pluck to have sexual intercourse with; a thinly veiled rhyming euphe­mism
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  • ploppers
    [cf. PLOP, from sound of bursting buds or flotation chambers] n. 1. a plant, Bryophyllum pinnatum. = LIFE LEAF, LEAF-OF-LIFE, LIVE- FOREVER, PORPUS (Black) 2. a
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  • plop-eye
    adj. 1. [cf. OED pop-eye bulging or prominent eye + PLOP pop) having large eyes. (Black) 2. [cf. BIG-EYE] greedy. (Eleu.)
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  • plop
    [cf. Cayman plop-corn pop-corn (Fuller 68); OED plop sound of falling into water) v. to pop; to burst, making a noise.
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  • plenty-plenty
    [DJE idem; by reduplication of PLENTY] adv. a great deal (emphatic). (Black)
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  • plenty
    [Car.; OED colloq. intensifier: plenty large] adv. a great deal: 1936 I like it plenty (Dupuch 62). (Black)
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  • play the blocks
    [cf. BLOCKS; Australian do the block to lounge on the promenade OEDS I) v. phr. to stand about conversing on
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