Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a broken-veined, bloated nose that exhibits signs of its possessor’s heavy drinking.

1902		H. Baumann Londinismen (2nd edn).
1909		N.Z. Truth 16 Jan. 6/2: A respctably dressed, elderly person with a strawberry nose.

2. a red nose.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 1165/1: [...] C.20.

3. a bruise, esp. a graze or sore that results from friction with the ground.

1921		Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 13 Oct. 11/4: ‘Strawberry’, or open sore, on his hip, caused by sliding bases and constantly reopened [OED].
1937		Pittsburgh Press 11 Jan. 27/5: Here are some expressions commonly used [...]; Strawberry, a bruise from sliding [etc.] [OED].
1970		J. Bouton Ball Four 262: Tommy Harper has a pulled thigh muscle and a bad sliding strawberry.
1981		Wash. Star 19 Mar. D1: ‘Look at that,’ he said, hitching up his knickerbockers to reveal matching strawberries just above both knees, red and angry-looking [OED].

4. in drug uses [the colour of the tablets].

5. (US teen) a promiscuous woman, esp. one who barters sex for drugs; also used of males [? the woman spends so much time on her knees (for fellatio) or on her back (for intercourse) that she gets scars; but note Mex. Sp. fresa, lit. strawberry, a girl who frequents a dancehall].

1987		NWA ‘Dopeman’ 🎵 She’s called the Strawberry, and everyone know / Strawberry, Strawberry is the neighborhood ho.
1989		P. Munro Sl. U.
1995		J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 272: A skeleton-thin strawberry [...] the rock cocaine she sucked cocks on the street to keep in her pipe.
2000		F.X. Toole Rope Burns 175: A strawberry was what you picked up off the street, a crack whore, one of the street girls and women who gave head for a poke on a stained glass pipe.
2013		J. Stahl Bad Sex on Speed 66: It’s not like I was a bag ho. [...] Crackheads called them strawberries. Little girls and boys who would do anything — and that means anything — to get their mouth around a pipe.

6. (US campus) a good-looking woman.

1997–2000

Da Bomb 🌐 27: Strawberry: 1. A fine looking woman.

7. (Aus.) a $5 note.

2013

T. Peacock More You Bet 66: Once decimal currentcy was introduced, the ‘$5 note’ became known as a ‘strawberry’, due to its colour even though a ‘mulberry’ would have been more appropriate.