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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"My husband was promised work - payment stopped for the work and we were literally living off peanuts and I just remember crying," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
Three to five dollars must seem like peanuts to the jewelry guy.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
Customers this week snapped up limited-time gear from Starbucks’s “Peanuts” fall collection and McDonald’s new “SpongeBob SquarePants” toys — and now they’re being resold online for a premium.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
The Starbucks items featuring the “Peanuts” characters — known for animated classics like “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” — were intended to promote the return of Starbucks’s pumpkin-spice latte.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
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
Plus, customers have reached out with new ideas for products linked to specific “Peanuts” storylines.
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
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