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peanut

Definition

  • noun: a nut with a thin shell that grows under the ground and that can be eaten
  • noun: a low-branching widely cultivated annual herb ('Arachis hypogaea') of the legume family with showy yellow flowers having a peduncle which elongates and bends into the soil where the ovary ripens into a pod containing one to three oily edible seeds
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: goober, goober pea, groundnut

Examples

  • Five billion dollars is 'peanuts' compared to what the government spends each year.

  • a 'peanut butter' and jelly sandwich

  • He works all day for 'peanuts'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) via the UMP. It's simple! Maybe, but people see you as a man of action. Here you can act. It's palpable, concrete. The UMP is peanut politics. You'll become boring. You sound like those asshole reporters! My stealing the UMP pisses them of. Chirac is green with envy. (..)
    2016 Me Before You