| lemon |  | |
| 1. n. A yellowish citrus fruit. | |
| 2. n. A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits. | |
| 3. n. A taste or flavour/flavor of lemons. | |
| 4. n. A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits. | |
| (color panel, lemon flesh, 2=FADA5E) | |
| (color panel, lemon rind, 2=FDE910) | |
| 5. n. (slang) A defective or inadequate item or individual. | |
| He didn’t realise until he’d paid for it that the car was a lemon. | |
| 6. n. (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from “lemon flavour”) Favor. | |
| A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon, I could get it for half that. | |
| 7. n. (fandom) A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex (named after the erotic anime series Cream Lemon). | |
| 8. adj. Containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons. | |
| 9. adj. Of the pale yellow colour/color of lemons. | |
| 10. adj. (Cockney rhyming slang) Smart; cheeky, vocal. | |
| 11. v. To flavour with lemon. | |
| You can start the vegetables cooking while you are lemoning the fish. | |
