peanut butter

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpiːnʌtˈbʌ.tə/, /ˈpiːnʌtˌbʌ.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.nʌtˌbʌ.tɚ/

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peanut butter (countable and uncountable, plural peanut butters)

1. A spread made from ground peanuts.

   Synonyms: (dated) peanut paste, PB

   • 2003, George August, Ph.D. with Anita Balliro, Ph.D. et al., “The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth”, in Annals of Improbable Research‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 August 2012:

     So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the earth.

• almond butter
• cashew butter
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peanut butter (third-person singular simple present peanut butters, present participle peanut buttering, simple past and past participle peanut buttered)

1. To spread resources too thin

• peanut butter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia