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peanut butter and jelly

peanut butter and jelly noun: peanut butter and jelly (or jam) that is spread on bread to make a sandwich.

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
    • 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)
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see peanut butter, jelly.

Examples of peanut butter and jelly in a sentence

  • 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...
  • 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:

Synonyms of peanut butter and jelly

Forms of peanut butter and jelly

pluralpeanut butter and jellies
alternative formPB&J
alternative formPBJ

Questions about peanut butter and jelly

What does peanut butter and jelly mean?
Peanut butter and jelly means peanut butter and jelly (or jam) that is spread on bread to make a sandwich.
How do you use peanut butter and jelly in a sentence?
I've got a peanut butter and jelly for your son.
What part of speech is peanut butter and jelly?
Peanut butter and jelly is a noun.
What is the plural of peanut butter and jelly?
The plural of peanut butter and jelly is peanut butter and jellies.

Words near peanut butter and jelly in the dictionary

  1. peanut bunker
  2. peanut butter
  3. peanut butter and jam
  4. peanut butter and jams
  5. peanut butter and jellies
  6. peanut butter and jelly
  7. peanut butter cup
  8. peanut butter cups
  9. peanut buttered
  10. peanut buttering
  11. peanut butters

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