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Definition of Banana peel
1. Noun. The skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded). "He slipped on a banana skin and almost fell"
Definition of Banana peel
1. Noun. The several outermost layers of a banana, which can collectively be stripped off of the interior flesh of the fruit, and which may be slippery if stepped on. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Banana Peel
Literary usage of Banana peel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American law reports annotated (1920)
"App. —, 185 SW 969, an action for injuries sustained by a passenger who claimed
to have slipped upon a banana peel in descending the steps of a railway car, ..."
2. The Profession of Journalism: A Collection of Articles on Newspaper Editing by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer (1918)
"To keep the humor of the banana peel in countenance, we find the picture of a
fat man accidentally ..."
3. The Backward Child: A Study of the Psychology and Treatment of Backwardness by Barbara Spofford Morgan (1914)
"And the analytically minded person will be a great deal more apt to slip on the
banana peel from the very fact that his ideas, in the process of formation, ..."
4. Diseases of the Nervous System Resulting from Accident and Injury by Pearce Bailey (1906)
"The banana peel was produced in evidence. Jennie Freeman received $125 in respect
of these injuries, though the claim agent suspected fraud. ..."
5. Diseases of the nervous system resulting from accident and injury by Pearce Bailey (1909)
"On May 16, 1894, claim against the Boston and Maine Railroad of having been
injured by slipping on a banana peel when stepping out of a car at the Prospect ..."
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