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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

  • (..) I'm just trying to say something. You're spending a Iot of money on this counter-surveiIIance. I don't give a f$ck. It's % of our adjusted gross. % isn't peanuts. I don't give a f$ck! It makes me sIeep good at night. That's what counts. -Okay? You worry about it. -I am worried about it. (..)
    1983 Scarface