eggplant

noun

Etymology: From egg + plant, originally applied only to the white-colored, egg-shaped variety.

1. The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.

   “Some fun meatless recipes include jackfruit sandwiches in place of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.””

2. A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
3. A black person; used mainly by Italian-Americans.

   “Hey. Yeah. And, and your great-great-great-great grandmother fucked a nigger, ho, ho, yeah, and she had a half-nigger kid… now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you, you're part eggplant.”

   “"Why am I not surprised?" This was the limit. "You know, I'm black enough for his family to yell eggplant-this and nigger-that at me," she said.”

4. A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall.