currant bun

noun

1. a sweet bun containing currants
2. another name for black bun
3. slang:rhyming.
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Example Sentences

Shahrzad is a scrap of a girl, with round currant bun eyes, heavy brows and a wild Afro-style mop of hair, but she is also a reincarnation of her famous precursor, Scheherazade.

From New York Times

"But I can cook a very competitive currant bun so phew," Beckinsale added.

From Fox News

The more general view, however, was that an atom was more like a currant bun or a plum pudding: a dense, solid object that carried a positive charge but that was studded with negatively charged electrons, like the currants in a currant bun.

From Literature

Action on Sugar suggests swapping cakes or biscuits for an alternative with less sugar, such as a currant bun or scone.

From The Guardian

However, the No More Page 3 campaign, now led by Caroline Lucas, is becoming tedious and is as disproportionate in 2013 as the embonpoint of Samantha Fox or Katie Price in their "Currant Bun" heydays.

From The Guardian