jelly bean
IPA: dʒˈɛɫibˈin
noun
- A small, bean-shaped, chewy candy/sweet with a firm coating and a jelly-like center, made of sugar, flavoring, coloring and sometimes starch or other thickener, and usually sold assorted in a wide variety of flavors and bright colors.
jellybean
IPA: dʒˈɛɫibˈiʌn
noun
- Alternative spelling of jelly bean [A small, bean-shaped, chewy candy/sweet with a firm coating and a jelly-like center, made of sugar, flavoring, coloring and sometimes starch or other thickener, and usually sold assorted in a wide variety of flavors and bright colors.]
adjective
- (slang, electronics, programming) of an electronic component, or software algorithm: generic, standard, vanilla, easy to find
Examples of "jellybean" in Sentences
Examples of "jelly-bean" in Sentences
- Frankly I like the organic jelly-bean shape of the concept drawing.
- It sells Laughing Cow cheese and confectionery items such as jelly-bean brand Jelly Belly.
- He couches a lot of his literary judgments in the form, "I like ...," as if he were picking out jelly-bean flavors.
- In the 1990s, the jelly-bean shaped Ford Taurus was a big hit, selling as many as 409,000 in 1992 before being passed by Toyota's Camry and Honda's Accord.
- A small demon trilled its freedom to the universe as the fly-sized being rose from the mirror, but I caught it in my fist and crushed it until it popped, a tiny jelly-bean of ichor.
- Janie Shoenborn, design director for Lilly Pulitzer, has been drawn to "statement" clothing — bold, eye-catching pieces — and look-at-me prints since age 6, when she picked out a bathing suit with an all-over jelly-bean pattern.
- Chattanooga, which was tres yum, and played games including jelly-bean relay, charades, and a variant of "telephone" or "exquisite corpse" in which players alternately wrote phrases and drew pictures based on the previous picture/phrase without seeing any of the ones before that.