jelly bean
noun
: a sugar-glazed bean-shaped candy
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Cut one jelly bean in half crosswise for lamb’s eyes. 
Mary Meade, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2022 Dress up the lamb with jelly bean eyes and a pretty ribbon around its neck. Mary Meade, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2022 The entire contents created a pool of oil substantial enough to deep-fry a jelly bean. Washington Post, 29 July 2021 Easter egg hunt, swooping about like Valkyries on a jelly bean high, throwing elbows and acquiring grass stains. Abigail Tucker, Washington Post, 6 May 2021 These beads, each only a millimeter in diameter and the consistency of a jelly bean, are then put in a furnace that is injected with gases that break down in the oven, depositing thin layers of graphite and silicon carbide around the uranium kernel. Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 30 June 2020 Easter used to really be important for kids, coloring Easter eggs, a basket full of goodies, from jelly beans to chocolate rabbits, a great holiday, right up there with Halloween and a close second to Christmas. Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 11 Apr. 2020 Carefully lay in a few jelly beans or chocolate eggs. Beth Segal, cleveland, 10 Apr. 2020 Work for your candy: Make a homemade papier mache pinata, fill it with chocolate eggs, jelly beans and marshmallow Peeps. Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2020 See More
Mary Meade, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2022 Dress up the lamb with jelly bean eyes and a pretty ribbon around its neck. Mary Meade, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2022 The entire contents created a pool of oil substantial enough to deep-fry a jelly bean. Washington Post, 29 July 2021 Easter egg hunt, swooping about like Valkyries on a jelly bean high, throwing elbows and acquiring grass stains. Abigail Tucker, Washington Post, 6 May 2021 These beads, each only a millimeter in diameter and the consistency of a jelly bean, are then put in a furnace that is injected with gases that break down in the oven, depositing thin layers of graphite and silicon carbide around the uranium kernel. Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 30 June 2020 Easter used to really be important for kids, coloring Easter eggs, a basket full of goodies, from jelly beans to chocolate rabbits, a great holiday, right up there with Halloween and a close second to Christmas. Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 11 Apr. 2020 Carefully lay in a few jelly beans or chocolate eggs. Beth Segal, cleveland, 10 Apr. 2020 Work for your candy: Make a homemade papier mache pinata, fill it with chocolate eggs, jelly beans and marshmallow Peeps. Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1886, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
jelly bean
noun
: a chewy bean-shaped candy