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road apple

noun

Slang.
  1. a piece of horse manure on or at the side of a road.


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Origin of road apple1

First recorded in 1940–45
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Athletes of Indigenous descent have been playing hockey, or versions of it, for more than 300 years — starting with Micmac Indians in Nova Scotia, Canada playing “ricket” with a frozen road apple in the late 1600s.

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A road apple refers to the patties of manure that horses leave along rural roads.

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The road apple is the quintessential Hip motif.

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I don’t know how many kids have ever used a road apple as a hockey puck, but we all believe there was some golden time when hockey was played with nothing else.

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He’s 4-20 against Big Ten teams, a road apple you can’t polish.

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