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Definition of fruit cake noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

fruit cake

noun

NAmE//ˈfrutkeɪk//

1[countable, uncountable] a cake containing dried fruit

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2fruitcake [countable] (informal) a person who behaves in a strange or crazy way She's nutty as a fruitcake.

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