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peanuts

n. 1 (plural of peanut English) 2 A very small or insufficient amount (especially of a salary).

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peanuts

n. an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount; "her salary is peanuts compared to his"

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Peanuts

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being". At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages. It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion. Reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in almost every U.S. newspaper.

The strip focuses entirely on a miniature society of young children, with no shown adult characters. The main character, Charlie Brown, is meek, nervous, and lacks self-confidence. He is unable to fly a kite, win a baseball game, or kick a football.

Peanuts is one of the literate strips with philosophical, psychological, and sociological overtones that flourished in the 1950s. The strip's humor (at least during its '60s peak) is psychologically complex, and the characters' interactions formed a tangle of relationships that drove the strip.

Peanuts achieved considerable success with its television specials, several of which, including A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, won or were nominated for Emmy Awards. The holiday specials remain popular and are currently broadcast on ABC in the U.S. during the corresponding seasons. The Peanuts franchise met acclaim in theatre, with the stage musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown being a successful and often-performed production.

In 2013, TV Guide ranked the Peanuts television specials the fourth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time. A computer-animated feature film based on the strip, The Peanuts Movie, was released on November 6, 2015.

Peanuts (2006 film)

Peanuts is a 2006 Japanese film written and directed by Teruyoshi Uchimura.

Peanuts (TV series)

Peanuts is a French- American animated television series based on the franchise of the same name. The series was first aired on Discovery Kids in Latin America in 2015, and later aired in the United States on Boomerang on May 9, 2016 as segments of shorts that plays on a theme, and as interstitial shorts played only on Boomerang a few times during some hours. The series is also aired on Cartoon Network.

The series airs on France 3 in France and on Boomerang networks worldwide except for Japan.

Usage examples of "peanuts".

She was talking about engaging him to do a twenty-four-hour-a-day job for peanuts--no, not even for peanuts, probably for a couple of abrazos, some sacks filled with illegal deer meat, and a bag of beans.

Then I tossed him peanuts, throwing them first far away, then nearer and nearer till he would come to my window-sill.

It was most interesting, while he sat on my window-sill eating peanuts, to see the nose and eyes of another squirrel peering over the crotch of the nearest tree, watching the proceedings from his hiding place.

The moment he was gone, out would come a squirrel--sometimes two or three from their concealment--and carry off all the peanuts that remained.

If he returned unexpectedly and caught one of the intruders, there was always a furious chase and a deal of scolding and squirrel jabber before peace was restored and the peanuts eaten.

He searched the tree over, went to his other hiding places, came back, counted his peanuts, then searched the ground beneath, thinking, no doubt, the wind must have blown them out--all this before he had tasted a peanut of those that remained.

Back in Court I was cross-examining that notable grass, Peanuts Molloy, a skinnier, more furtive edition of Jim Timson.

What did you think was the most remarkable piece of evidence given by the witness Peanuts Molloy?

He stood up, stuffing the peanuts into a pocket of his forestgreen jumpsuit, which had been tailored for a larger man and hung on him like a parachute snagged on tree branches.

Ben tore the bag out of his hands and then tried very hard to eat the peanuts slowly.

Those peanuts you gave me, I ate them here, but I tasted them in another time.

Chattanooga and the rest of the family is laying low, working feverishly on a formula to convert peanuts into Swiss francs.

After that he bought a quart of peanuts, two bananas and a piece of mince-pie, and having disposed of all these he felt hungry no longer.

He had from three to six meals a day and an unlimited amount of pie and peanuts besides, but after all he was not particularly happy.

As he passed a fruit stand kept by an old woman, he slyly snatched a handful of peanuts which he ate as he went on.