PBJ
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of PBJ
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
It's like if a BLT met a PBJ and they had the sweetest baby and then you got to eat that baby, that's what this tastes like.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2022
Should I just let them make a PBJ?
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2020
It's okay if the kids eat cereal or PBJ for dinner a few nights a week, watch too much TV, etc.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2020
Wrote Angel: “As our tech pushed the eject button, out came a crusty, half-eaten PBJ sandwich!”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2018
I take an enormous bite of my PBJ and try not to choke.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Fonzie, a.k.a. the Fonz — which luckier ’70s kids than I got to schlep their PBJs to school in and which is now in the collection of the Smithsonian.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
But it was another King, he of sparkling spandex and bacon-banana PBJs and an affinity for Kahlil Gibran, who was beckoning me.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2017
Resting on the sand, we ate our PBJs, watching the waves and soaking in the solitude of a beach all our own.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2016
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
