plum

n. type of fruit; good position, good job (Slang)

"Plum" is also a nickname for British humorist P. G. Wodehouse, cricketer Sir Pelham Warner and British-born fashion writer and novelist Victoria "Plum" Sykes. A plum or gage is a stone fruit tree in the genus Prunus, subgenus Prunus. The subgenus is distinguished from other subgenera (peaches, cherries, bird cherries, etc) in the shoots having a terminal bud and the side buds solitary (not clustered), the flowers being grouped 1-5 together on short stems, and the fruit having a groove running down one side, and a smooth stone.
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Noun
1. any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone
(synonym) plum tree
(hypernym) fruit tree
(hyponym) wild plum, wild plum tree
(member-holonym) Prunus, genus Prunus
2. any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single pit
(hypernym) edible fruit
(hyponym) damson, damson plum
(part-holonym) plum tree
Adverb
1. exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"
(synonym) plumb
(classification) colloquialism
2. completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"
(synonym) clean, plumb
(classification) cant, jargon, slang, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular

(n.)
The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.
  

(n.)
A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.
  

(n.)
A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.
  

A compiler for a substantial subset of PL/I for the Univac 1100, from the University of Maryland.
["PL/I Programming with PLUM", M.V. Zelkowitz, Paladin House, 1978].
(1995-02-23)