jellybean
noun
a small, bean-shaped, usually brightly colored candy with a hard sugar coating and a firm gelatinous filling.
jellybeans
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pluralof jellybean.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The nickname stuck — Bryant also liked to eat jellybeans — and he became a star.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024
Someone filled Conor Daly’s portable hot tub with Orbeez, superabsorbent polymers that resemble jellybeans and grow to 100 times their original size when submerged in water.
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2022
The confounding process of determining an LFO amount “has all the certainty of counting jellybeans in a jar,” dissenting judges blistered in response to the Eleventh Circuit Court’s opinion.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2020
We may no longer have to guess the number of jellybeans in a jar in order to cast a ballot.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 30, 2020
I says what else do you expect except every dam drummer and cheap show that comes to town because even these town jellybeans give her the go-by now.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
