pee bee and jay

pee bee and jay (plural pee bee and jays)

1. Alternative form of PB&J.
   • 2000, Randall S. Peffer, “Mattapoisett”, in Logs of the Dead Pirates Society: A Schooner Adventure Around Buzzards Bay, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Sheridan House Inc., →ISBN, page 136:

     Meanwhile, the crew cooled off with long swims before downing gallons of lemonade from the thermos in the galley and eating a mound of what we had begun calling “Dead Pirates soul food” or “The Sacred Pee Bee and Jay.” These were peanut butter and jelly sandwiches made in assembly line fashion on the table of the main saloon by the two students on galley watch and passed to hungry mouths on deck wrapped in a paper towel along with an orange or an apple for desert.

   • 2004 March, Nicole Stansbury, “The Husband’s Dilemma”, in The Husband’s Dilemma, New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, →ISBN, page 86:

     So does the wife want him to pack his lunch? Is that what she’s getting at? Like what, like a pee bee and jay?

   • 2005, Francine Prose, part 3, in A Changed Man: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., →ISBN, page 273:

     Raymond remembers the family picnics turned to shit, the mad dashes to the hospital because Allergy Boy got into the Pee Bee and Jay and was turning blue while the adults fought over who was sober enough to drive.

   • 2010 March, Thomas Kaufman, chapter 17, in Drink the Tea: A Mystery, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, St. Martin’s Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 100:

     I made you a pee bee and jay, are you gonna eat it?