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strange fruit en · NOUN

Etymology

From a poem by Abel Meeropol later recorded by Billie Holiday (1939), see quotations.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A person who has been lynched by hanging; such people collectively.
    • We speak for the brothers behind bars whose words, at the very least, must be liberated We speak for the strange fruit hung from trees We speak for the brothers who drowned in alcohol, and whose spirits were pierced by needles 1986, Joseph Beam, “Introduction”, in In The Life:
    • Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root 1937 January, Abel Meeropol, “Bitter Fruit”, in The New York Teacher:

wikipedia: Abel Meeropol