| 单词 | apple knocker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasapple knocker apple knocker n. U.S. (a) Baseball slang a baseball player; spec. a batter; cf. sense 5c (now rare); (b) colloquial (frequently depreciative) a yokel or bumpkin; (hence) an ignorant or naive person; (c) colloquial a fruit picker or farmer. ΚΠ 1902Apple knocker [see sense 5c]. 1907 Chicago Sunday Tribune 4 Aug. vi. 4/3 40,000..citizens from other parts of the city..beat it for a quiet day among apple knockers. 1922 N. Anderson Hobo 93 An ‘apple knocker’ picks apples and other fruit. 1982 D. Harper Good Company 14 The fruit tramp, what we call the apple knocker. 1994 H. C. Sisson & D. W. Rowe Coots, Codgers & Curmudgeons 47 Ted took the ten warm-up pitches..and then faced the next apple knocker. 2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 Jan. a15/6 Locals mocked McAdoo's followers as ‘apple knockers’ and mimicked their drawls. < as lemmas |
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