crenshaw


Also found in: Wikipedia.
Related to crenshaw: Compton

cren·shaw

 (krĕn′shô′) also cran·shaw (krăn′-)
n.
A variety of melon (Cucumis melo) having a greenish-yellow rind and sweet, usually salmon-pink flesh.

[Origin unknown.]
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

crenshaw

(ˈkrɛnˌʃɔː)
n
(Cookery) a hybrid variety of melon with yellow skin and pale pink flesh
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
Nipsey opened his 'Marathon Clothing store' at the Slauson and Crenshaw intersection as he saw it as an opportunity and provide jobs to his people.
NAN reports that Nipsey was outspoken about his experience with street violence and described growing up in gang culture in his Crenshaw neighbourhood of South Los Angeles as 'living in a war zone.'
Alyssa Crenshaw scored on a putback, Gianine Boado deposited a 12-footer, Kendall Kietyka and Katelynn Skibinski scored on driving layups and D-C led 9-0 with 2:57 left in the first quarter.
New York, NY, January 30, 2019 --(PR.com)-- Crenshaw, the market leader in senior executive talent management, today announced WHG Partners has taken a majority equity stake in the company.
HOUSTON -- Dan Crenshaw's good eye is good enough, but it's not great.
Jonathan Crenshaw, 46, is homeless and a regular at South Beach.
If there is a way for them to be harmonized and read together, they will both be accommodated," she said.<br />Iafrate said she thought the case was "wrongly decided" because there was a way to accommodate both the collective bargaining agreement's just cause provision and the statutory waiver requirement.<br />"The way to accommodate would have been to reinstate [the officer] even if it was in some sort of modified status in order to give him the opportunity to revive the waiver application," she said.<br />Probationary period<br />In July 2013, the grievant, Michael Crenshaw, applied for a position as a campus police officer at the Community College of Rhode Island.
The son of a jazz drummer and gospel singer, he spent his childhood in historically black neighborhoods like Crenshaw and Leimert Park, the latter of which is known as a cradle for great jazz and blues music.
Carastathis begins her analysis by arguing that Kimberle Crenshaw's intersectionality framework, when mobilized in under-theorized, depoliticized terms, will not achieve its intended ends, but instead can even be used to stymie genuine emancipatory progress.
Ed Crenshaw, chairman and former chief executive officer at Publix Super Markets Inc., was named winner of the Sidney R.