What is the meaning of plum?

noun

  • Any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone.
  • Any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit.
  • A highly desirable position or assignment.
    • usage: "a political plum"

adverb

  • Exactly.
    • usage: "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"
  • Completely; used as intensifiers.
    • usage: "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"
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