banana

I'll need a few things. I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana.

2017, Sam Shepard, chapter 27, in Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 62:

An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.

(Canada, US, UK, Ireland) In particular, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar, which may be eaten raw, as distinct from e.g. a plantain for cooking.

The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas, a plant of the genus Musa (but sometimes also including plants from Ensete), which has large, elongated leaves.

banana:

(uncountable) A yellow color, like that of a banana's skin.

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of East or Southeast Asian descent, considered to be overly assimilated and subservient to white authority.

The fact that the cop bought O'Brien a beer after feeling of his banana suggests that it must have been a promising one

1986, Christopher Street, Cop Feels of Three Men's "Privates", volume 10:

His you-know-what turned soft .. his eight o'clock class was the last thing on his mind five minutes ago, when his banana wasn't overripe.

2012, Sarah Miynowski, Fishbowl, page 36:

Most of the gang were trying their best to shag the girls. One boy was sitting in a tree playing with himself and another was asking a table of teenagers if they would like to see his banana.

2014, Anthony Bunko, Lord Forgive Me, page 71:

He adds that after eating his banana (sucking his penis), he wants anal sex, but she asks him to lick her pussy. Then he tells her no because it is disgusting.

2017, Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture, page 234:

banana equivalent dose
banana equivalent dose

(nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose.

(computer science, colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).

en-noun

banana (countable and uncountable, plural bananas)

→ Japanese: バナナ

→ Korean: 바나나 (banana)

→ Maori: panana

→ Tok Pisin: banana

→ Zulu: úbhanána

banánový (corresponding to English attributive use)

(corresponding to English attributive use) banánový

Borrowed from Portuguese banana or Spanish banana, derived from a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Guinea region. Specific derivation is unclear. Possible ancestor or cognate languages include Wolof banaana, Eastern Maninkakan banana, and Vai ꕒꘌꕯ (ɓaana) or ꕒꕌꕯ (ɓaana), possibly from Arabic بَنَان (banān, “fingertip, banana”). However, Ay Baati Wolof (Munro & Gaye, 1997) posits that Wolof banaana is itself derived from Portuguese banana.
The racial slur derives from the notion that they are “Yellow (East-Asian) on the outside, but White (Westernized) on the inside”.


banana

Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.

2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, →ISBN, page 155:

He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.

2002, Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor, →ISBN, page 53:

[...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.

2006, Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer, →ISBN, page 247:

Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.