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Entry · Sunday, September 27, 2026

Cantaloupes in a cardboard bin beside watermelons at a produce stand.

Plate CXXII. Cantaloupes in a cardboard bin beside watermelons at a produce stand.

Photo by Townsend Walton on Unsplash

Cantaloupe

/KAN-tuh-lope/  n.
  1. 1. A muskmelon (Cucumis melo var. cantalupensis) of conspicuous equatorial girth, characterized by a deeply ribbed, netted rind that segments the exterior into pronounced lobes; esp. one observed from above, where the radial architecture reads less as fruit and more as load-bearing infrastructure.
  2. 2. colloq. Stacked at the market stall, she carries more in the back half than the front half knows about. The ribs are not decorative. The ribs are structural.
In a sentence:

"The Farmers Market vendor in Pasadena had a thiccc cantaloupe up front that stopped foot traffic on both sides of the aisle. The watermelons behind it looked like they were waiting their turn."

Etymology:

From French cantaloup, from Cantalupo, a former papal estate near Rome where the melon was cultivated after seeds arrived from Armenia in the 15th century. A fruit named after a castle. The castle was probably not this round.

From the desk

Filed by

Eliza HartwellStaff Writer

Filing from the Pasadena farmers market, where a cantaloupe stopped foot traffic and the watermelons looked embarrassed.

Ruling ADMITTED ON APPEAL

Bart PrussSenior Cataloguer

The radial lobe architecture reads as load-bearing. Margie overruled. For the file: a fruit should not have infrastructure. It does. I am complying.

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Frequently asked

Is a cantaloupe thiccc?

Yes. Cantaloupe was admitted to the Thiccctionary on September 27, 2026 and filed in the Produce & Botanical section. The ruling on file: Admitted on appeal. Every subject in the catalogue is judged on its curves, not its size.

What makes a cantaloupe thiccc?

Stacked at the market stall, she carries more in the back half than the front half knows about. The ribs are not decorative. The ribs are structural.

Is "thiccc" spelled with three c's?

Yes. The Thiccctionary house spelling uses three c's, distinguishing the editorial register from the colloquial "thicc" (two c's) and standard "thick" (one c).

Sources

  1. Photograph by Townsend Walton, via Unsplash. Catalogued under plate CXXII.
  2. Direct ruling URL: thiccctionary.com/is/cantaloupe-thiccc/, the shareable "Is a cantaloupe thiccc?" page.
  3. Cross-reference: Thiccctionary A-Z, C.
  4. Catalogued under: Produce & Botanical. See related entries below.
  5. Editorial review: ruled admitted on appeal by the desk. Objections on file.

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