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banana nose en · NOUN
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(idiomatic) A large, unusually long nose.
The man with the banana nose was on my right.
2003, Lawrence Gordon Knudsen, The Clock Struck Terror: A Professor Bates Novel, →ISBN, page 113:Shortly before giving an exam, Throckmorton puts on a pair of Elmo slippers, a banana nose and a funny hat.
2004 September 14, Valerie Strauss, “Can Exam Anxiety Be Overcome? With Effort”, in Washington Post, retrieved 10 Feb 2018:With his banana nose, hunched shoulders and hustling ways, Matthau's Buttermaker had an unmistakably Nixonian cast.
2005 July 22, Manohla Dargis, “Film Review: The Kids Are All Right; the Coach Has Problems”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Feb 2018:
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(capitalized, idiomatic, mildly, offensive, sometimes) A person having such a nose.
Sometimes the kids at school call me Banana Split, and when my father heard the name, he said, "You mean Banana Nose. You always had a big nose."
1995, Natalie Goldberg, Banana Rose: A Novel (2011 Open Road Media edition), ch. 2 (Google preview)“How many, young Millar?” asked Flanders, a giant with tight clothes, lambchop sideburns, a ruddy complexion and an enormous nose that defied gravity. The kids called him Banana Nose.
2003, Sam Millar, chapter 3, in On the Brinks, →ISBN:But 30 years ago, it was a pleasure to relax at the track—win or lose. The only remark I ever heard made to a jockey by a fan in those days was a friendly "Hey, banana nose" addressed to the great Eddie Arcaro.
1985 June 30, Robert N. Strauss, “Letters: Ugly Fans at Track”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Feb 2018:
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