The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jell-O \Jell"-O\, jello \jell"o\n. [a trademark.] a brand of sweetened fruit-flavored powdered mixture, packaged so that it can be conveniently dissolved in hot water and solidified into a gelatin, used as a dessert, sometimes with pieces of fruit mixed in; also the gelatin dessert thus prepared; sometimes used metaphorically; as, when he pulled a gun on me, my knees turned to Jell-O..
Note: Jell-O was originally a trademark and is still protected by trademark law, but is often used as one word, uncapitalized in informal writing.
Wikipedia
Jell-O is a registered trademark of Kraft Foods for varieties of gelatin desserts, including fruit gels, puddings and no-bake cream pies.
Usage examples of "jell-o".
He could imagine the mayor gulping red Jell-O, George Breze wallowing in mashed potatoes and gravy, and Amanda Goodwinter gorging on Oreos, Chief Brodie eating chocolate pudding.
Then she returned to the kitchen sink, where she spooned all the Jell-O salad and the three other casseroles into the garbage disposal while she swore to herself that she would not, would not, would not cry.
The dance was an AFL-CIO affair with a polka band and an acre of sheet cake and Jell-O molds, a cash bar, and balloons on the ceilings.
I had tied the ground wire to the radiator, and I would lie there with my coloring books and my Crayolas (when there were only sixteen colors in the big box), and listen to the NBC red network: Jack Benny on the Jell-O Program, Amos n Andy, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on the Chase and Sanborn Program, One Mans Family, First Nighter.
At the kitchen table, Vanessa and Becca were cutting out Jell-O hearts with cookie cutters.
We needed skim milk, Toastie-Os, Pop-Tarts, Jell-O, dishwasher detergent-and something else, but I couldnt read my own writing.
We needed skim milk, Toastie-Os, Pop-Tarts, Jell-O, dishwasher detergent-and something else, but I couldn’.
Before Eagleton sat a perfect model of a brain, like a Jell-O concoction but made of silicone rubber.
With one loud Word YKW make us fall into line and behaveanybody acts naughty now gets incarnated as cactus for fifty yearsand we all sob & cry & promise to be good, turning back into our treu shape, which is two-foot-high pyramids of green Jell-O.
I was trying to decide between Jell-O and fruit cocktail from the cafeteria counter.
This was the menu: iced tea with Sweet 'N Low already mixed in, a green Jell-O square with fruit cocktail and an internal ribbon of Miracle Whip, iceberg lettuce with bottled dressing the color of a sunset.
Ages ago hed heard about some college-boy stunt, filling a swimming pool with Jell-O, and hed wondered how many little boxes of the gelatin dessert it would have required, and how the college boys could have afforded it.
She had gone to the cafeteria for a ham sandwich and a bowl of Jell-O and a glass of milk, and she'd felt the eyes on her again.
I hear that some interesting things show up in the buffet from time to time, but I am loath to eat at a Chinese restaurant-even a Southern Chinese restaurant-that has a salad bar, replete with iceberg lettuce and Jell-O.
So he imagined space filled with a mysterious substance he called the aether, which supported and contained the time-varying electric and magnetic fields - something like a throbbing but invisible Jell-O permeating the Universe.