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Oval Office candy from 1981 to 1989
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jellybean
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Word definitions for jellybean in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of jelly bean English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1905, from jelly (n.) + bean (n.). So called for its shape. Soon used in U.S. slang for "stupid person," probably encouraged by the slang sense of bean as "head."
Usage examples of jellybean.
Round the end of the kitchen table he turned on the radio which eagerly informed him that a group of handicapped mountainclimbers had carried an American flag and a bag of jellybeans to the summit of Mount Rainier before he could bend to turn the dial, slowly, bringing in the full chord of a cello.
Example: if you are going to eat celery instead of a regular meal or jellybeans instead of smoke cigarettes, the celery must be bought and cut and the jellybeans bought in advance.
She wants you and Weston to destroy each other so her own candidate can pick up the jellybeans and move in here.
But eventually she nails one, a little jellybean with glued-on windows and a three-cylinder engine, and that takes her up to the United States border.
He's gonna die at home in the sack, with a grin on his face and a jellybean jar full of Viagras on the nightstand.