peanuts
noun
a trifling amount of money
peanuts
British
/ ˈpiːˌnʌts /
noun
“Peanuts”
Cultural
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Perhaps the most popular character is the beagle Snoopy, Charlie Brown's dog, who is often accompanied by his feathered friend, Woodstock.
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Caicedo eked out a living by selling peanuts and other products on the street, earning just enough to pay for a room that cost around $4.50 a day.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The plant material included cultivated wheat, carrots, maize, bananas and peanuts.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Put this all together and farmers — mainly large-scale row-crop producers of corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, rice and peanuts — are already set to receive roughly $55 billion from the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
They designed an experiment to mimic natural feeding in the wild - using peanuts.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Everything that I’ve traded for thus far will be peanuts compared to what my next transactions will bring.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Alexandra Parfitt, 46, a biostatistician, was disappointed to discover her 9-year-old daughter had copied and pasted an internet description of a “Peanuts” cartoon character into a school presentation on Google Slides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
I’m starting to think large numbers of American voters — and especially conservatives — have never read the “Peanuts” comic strip.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026
Growing up, Bella Shingledecker loved the holiday season because it meant that the “Peanuts” animated specials would be back on the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
Despite his owner being the “Peanuts” strip’s main character and the namesake for most of the franchise’s adaptations, Snoopy was inarguably its breakout star.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
Their goal is to honor Schulz’s storytelling, she added, and with 18,000 “Peanuts” strips in the archive, licensees have plenty of material to pull from.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
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