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PBJ

PBJ is the initialism of peanut butter and jelly.

Meaning of peanut butter and jelly

Noun

peanut butter and jelly (countable and uncountable, plural peanut butter and jellies)

  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 demonstrate1971, Michael Weller, Five Plays, published 1997, Moonchildren, page 19
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see peanut butter, jelly.

Forms of PBJ

pluralPBJs

Questions about PBJ

What is PBJ the initialism of?
PBJ is the initialism of peanut butter and jelly.

Words near PBJ in the dictionary

  1. PBHs
  2. PBI
  3. PBing
  4. PBIS
  5. Pbit
  6. PBJ
  7. PBJs
  8. pbk
  9. PBL
  10. PBM
  11. PBMA

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PBJ (page history and authors); peanut butter and jelly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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