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Irish apricot (plural Irish apricots)

  1. (obsolete, slang) A potato.
    • 1839, John Gideon Millingen, Stories of Torres Vedras (page 140)
      "Ha! ha!" retorted his opponent, with a malicious grin, "and sugar, Sir, sugar, sugar; will your Irish apricots make sugar? No, no, mangel wurzel is the thing to fatten and improve everything and anything. [] "