"peanut-butter-and-jelly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1970, Judith Viorst, Try It Again, Sam: Safety When You Walk, New York, N.Y.: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, →LCCN:",
          "text": "Sam was so happy he ate two peanut-butter-and-jellies, and a glass of milk, and chocolate pudding with cream, and five Lorna Doones.",
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          "ref": "1971 May, Elenor Grozney, “Letters”, in National Lampoon, volume 1, number 14, New York, N.Y.: National Lampoon, Inc., page 6, column 3:",
          "text": "I have undergone over 17 of these therapeutic treatments and if you get hungry, I left some peanut-butter-and-jellies in the fridge.",
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          "ref": "1979, Donald Barthelme, “Aria”, in The New Yorker, volume LV, New York, N.Y.: The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., →ISSN, page 37, column 1:",
          "text": "Sometimes they drift in from the Yukon and other far places, come in and sit down at the kitchen table, want a glass of milk and a peanut-butter-and-jelly, I oblige, for old times’ sake.",
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          "ref": "1982, Robert Mayer, Midge & Decker, New York, N.Y.: A & W Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 227:",
          "text": "She made some peanut-butter-and-jellies, wrapping them in aluminum foil—she wondered whatever happened to wax paper, like her mother used to use—and put them in a paper bag along with some beers and some DDPs.",
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          "ref": "1983, Emily Greenspan, “The Education of the Superstar”, in Little Winners: Inside the World of the Child Sports Star, Boston, Mass., Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 139:",
          "text": "Some of the students pass up the Sloppy Joes for chicken salad sandwiches, or decide to make their own peanut-butter-and-jellies.",
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          "ref": "1986, Peter De Vries, Peckham’s Marbles, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 39:",
          "text": "“Oh, yes. Up from the Brownies. We all remember peanut-butter-and-jellies very well. No picnic without them.”",
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          "ref": "1992, Berkeley students in cooperation with the Associated Students of the University of California, On the Loose in the Pacific Northwest & Alaska (The Berkeley Guides: The Budget Traveler’s Handbook), New York, N.Y.: Fodor’s Travel Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 143:",
          "text": "You can feast on turkey tacos for $4.50, vegetarian sandwiches for $4, and peanut-butter-and-jellies for $1.75.",
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          "ref": "1999, Joe Karson, “City”, in Dining with Hitler & Hemingway, Fairbanks, Ak.: Plumb Bob Press, →ISBN, page 80:",
          "text": "The men greedily unwrapped each sandwich, tossing the peanut-butter-and-jellies into a trash barrel along with the Oreos, Fig Newtons, and carrot strips. Baby food. These were grown men with serious appetites.",
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          "ref": "2000, Debra Calhoun Jones, editor, Swamp Gravy: Folk Tales of South Georgia, volume IV (Claiming Kin), Colquitt, Ga.: Sobek Press, →ISBN, page 79:",
          "text": "Until I was much older and had started thinking for myself more, I followed Ferrell's hand-me-down recipe and swirled the peanut butter and jelly before spreading it on both crackers and white bread. I still love peanut-butter-and-jellies, but now my recipe is my own creation.",
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          "ref": "2012, Marian Hailey-Moss, Mark Wilk, A Dog Named Randall, North Charleston, S.C.: CreateSpace, →ISBN, page 15:",
          "text": "“And I’ll make more of those peanut-butter-and-jellies. I’ll eat with him. It’ll help us bond.”",
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          "ref": "2012, Patsy Garlan, Sea Change: The Uncertain Realm of the Married, Lompoc, Calif.: Summerland Publishing, →ISBN, page 68:",
          "text": "I’ll bring the peanut-butter-and-jellies. It’ll be like camp.",
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          "ref": "2015 April, Courtney Hodell, “And Baby Makes Three”, in Elle, New YorK, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, Inc., page 292:",
          "text": "From birth, Christian had a sense of flair: In grammar school he’d cut our peanut-butter-and-jellies into crustless tea sandwiches and include a fluted paper plate in our lunch bags, indifferent to mockery.",
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          "text": "Sam was so happy he ate two peanut-butter-and-jellies, and a glass of milk, and chocolate pudding with cream, and five Lorna Doones.",
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          "ref": "1971 May, Elenor Grozney, “Letters”, in National Lampoon, volume 1, number 14, New York, N.Y.: National Lampoon, Inc., page 6, column 3:",
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          "ref": "1979, Donald Barthelme, “Aria”, in The New Yorker, volume LV, New York, N.Y.: The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., →ISSN, page 37, column 1:",
          "text": "Sometimes they drift in from the Yukon and other far places, come in and sit down at the kitchen table, want a glass of milk and a peanut-butter-and-jelly, I oblige, for old times’ sake.",
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          "ref": "1982, Robert Mayer, Midge & Decker, New York, N.Y.: A & W Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 227:",
          "text": "She made some peanut-butter-and-jellies, wrapping them in aluminum foil—she wondered whatever happened to wax paper, like her mother used to use—and put them in a paper bag along with some beers and some DDPs.",
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          "ref": "1983, Emily Greenspan, “The Education of the Superstar”, in Little Winners: Inside the World of the Child Sports Star, Boston, Mass., Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 139:",
          "text": "Some of the students pass up the Sloppy Joes for chicken salad sandwiches, or decide to make their own peanut-butter-and-jellies.",
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          "text": "“Oh, yes. Up from the Brownies. We all remember peanut-butter-and-jellies very well. No picnic without them.”",
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          "ref": "1992, Berkeley students in cooperation with the Associated Students of the University of California, On the Loose in the Pacific Northwest & Alaska (The Berkeley Guides: The Budget Traveler’s Handbook), New York, N.Y.: Fodor’s Travel Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 143:",
          "text": "You can feast on turkey tacos for $4.50, vegetarian sandwiches for $4, and peanut-butter-and-jellies for $1.75.",
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          "ref": "1999, Joe Karson, “City”, in Dining with Hitler & Hemingway, Fairbanks, Ak.: Plumb Bob Press, →ISBN, page 80:",
          "text": "The men greedily unwrapped each sandwich, tossing the peanut-butter-and-jellies into a trash barrel along with the Oreos, Fig Newtons, and carrot strips. Baby food. These were grown men with serious appetites.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2000, Debra Calhoun Jones, editor, Swamp Gravy: Folk Tales of South Georgia, volume IV (Claiming Kin), Colquitt, Ga.: Sobek Press, →ISBN, page 79:",
          "text": "Until I was much older and had started thinking for myself more, I followed Ferrell's hand-me-down recipe and swirled the peanut butter and jelly before spreading it on both crackers and white bread. I still love peanut-butter-and-jellies, but now my recipe is my own creation.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2012, Marian Hailey-Moss, Mark Wilk, A Dog Named Randall, North Charleston, S.C.: CreateSpace, →ISBN, page 15:",
          "text": "“And I’ll make more of those peanut-butter-and-jellies. I’ll eat with him. It’ll help us bond.”",
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          "ref": "2012, Patsy Garlan, Sea Change: The Uncertain Realm of the Married, Lompoc, Calif.: Summerland Publishing, →ISBN, page 68:",
          "text": "I’ll bring the peanut-butter-and-jellies. It’ll be like camp.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2015 April, Courtney Hodell, “And Baby Makes Three”, in Elle, New YorK, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, Inc., page 292:",
          "text": "From birth, Christian had a sense of flair: In grammar school he’d cut our peanut-butter-and-jellies into crustless tea sandwiches and include a fluted paper plate in our lunch bags, indifferent to mockery.",
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