peanut butter and jelly
See also: peanut-butter-and-jelly
English
Noun
peanut butter and jelly (countable and uncountable, plural peanut butter and jellies)
- (uncountable, US) Peanut butter and jelly (or jam) that is spread on bread to make a sandwich.
- (countable, US) A sandwich consisting of bread spread with layers of peanut butter and jelly.
- Alternative form: peanut-butter-and-jelly
- 1971, Michael Weller, Five Plays, published 1997, Moonchildren, page 19:
- 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
- 1979, Donald Barthelme, "Aria", originally published in The New Yorker, republished in Sixty Stories (1981)
- 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, […] .
- 1994, Tom Clancy, Armored Cav, page 167:
- 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.
- 1996, Sherman Alexie, “Indian Killer”, in Peter Donahue, John Trombold, editors, Reading Seattle: The City in Prose, published 2014, page 209:
- I've got a peanut butter and jelly for your son.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see peanut butter, jelly.
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