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peanut butter and jelly en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (US, uncountable) Peanut butter and jelly (or jam) that is spread on bread to make a sandwich.
2. (US, countable) A sandwich consisting of bread spread with layers of peanut butter and jelly.
   • On your average march you'll find you get through a good two peanut butter and jellies before you even get to where you're supposed to demonstrate 1971, Michael Weller, Five Plays, published 1997, Moonchildren, page 19:
   • Her mother stuffed a peanut butter and jelly into a bag and turned to look at Emily. 2002, W. Z. Nelson, Hurricane Summer, page 72:
   • They sat across from each other on the blanket eating peanut butter and jellies and drinking pop. 2015, Susan Behon, Made for Me:
   • I've got a peanut butter and jelly for your son. 1996, Sherman Alexie, “Indian Killer”, in Peter Donahue, John Trombold, editors, Reading Seattle: The City in Prose, published 2014, page 209:
   • Sometimes they drift in from the Yukon and other far places, come in and sit down at the kitchen table, want a glass of milk and a peanut-butter-and-jelly, […] . 1979, Donald Barthelme, "Aria", originally published in The New Yorker, republished in Sixty Stories (1981)
   • And by the end of the Apollo moon-landing program, NASA was allowing common grocery items like bread slices, canned meats, and peanut butter and jellies on lunar missions. 1994, Tom Clancy, Armored Cav, page 167:
3. (countable, uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see peanut butter, jelly.

Forms

Relateds

peanut-butter-and-jelly

Synonyms

peanut butter and jam · peanut butter and jam