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peanuts

nounnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈpiːnʌts//
  • United States//ˈpiˌnʌts//

Especially of a salary: a very insufficient or small amount.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of peanutplural of peanut

noun

  1. 1

    figurativeEspecially of a salary: a very insufficient or small amount.

    It’s a fun job, but it pays peanuts.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of peanutthird-person singular simple present indicative of peanut

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).