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Pile in to stop a slippery customer producing something slippery?
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banana peel
Word definitions for banana peel in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Canadian US English) The several outermost layers of a banana, especially once removed from the rest of the banana, which may be slippery if stepped on. 2 (context Canadian US English) A cause of difficulty, or potential embarrassment.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded); "he slipped on a banana skin and almost fell" [syn: banana skin ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Then a guy slips on a banana peel .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Banana Peel is a 1963 French-Italian-German comedy film starring Jeanne Moreau and Jean Paul Belmondo . It recorded admissions in France of 1,909,913.
Usage examples of banana peel.
He started to gesture to them that he had no more bananas when the girl smiled prettily and with some ceremony presented him with his banana peel.
The dog howled with pain and thrashed, its spine broken, the banana peel lost.
After I circled the kitchen, trying but failing to find meaning in a mug half filled with cold coffee, in a browning banana peel left on a cutting board, in the unwashed dishes in the sink, and in the ordinary contents of drawers and cupboards, I realized that the air was not just cool but inexplicably chilly.
People use a wide variety of formulas with success, for instance, putting a banana peel, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup vinegar into a 4 litre bottle, filling it with water, and hanging it from the tree.
Did you ever hear that touching little poem about the man who stepped on a banana peel?
So the area of the banana peel thrown on the football field is only a couple of parts per million.