Fruit, fruity, and fruitcake, as well as its many variations, are slang or even sexual slang terms which have various origins. These terms have often been used derogatorily to refer to LGBT people. … See more

In A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address author Leslie Dunkling traces the friendly use of the phrase old fruit (and rarely old tin of fruit) to the 1920s in Britain possibly deriving from the phrase … See more

Strange Fruit
"Strange Fruit" is most often a reference to the lynchings of black people in the American South, in reference to the jazz song of that name popularised by Billie Holiday. Fruit of the gibbet (used 18th through late 19th … See more

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• Leap, William L. (1996). Warner, Natasha; et al. (eds.). Fruit Loops and Naughty Places: How the Language of Gay City Reflects the Politics of Urban Gay Experience. Berkeley: Berkeley Women and Language Group. pp. 411–23. {{cite book}}: … See more