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Peanut Gallery

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Noun

1. peanut gallery

(figurative) people whose criticisms are regarded as irrelevant or insignificant (resembling uneducated people who throw peanuts on the stage to express displeasure with a performance)

Example Sentences:
'he ignored complaints from the peanut gallery'

2. family circle, peanut gallery, second balcony, upper balcony

rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Peanut Gallery

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noun
US informal
a group of hecklers or critics, esp a group who are uneducated or uninformed about what they are criticizing

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Peanut Gallery

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Slang
the topmost balcony section in a theater, where the cheaper seats are located

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Peanut Gallery

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n.
1. The hindmost or uppermost section of seating in a theater balcony, where the seats are cheapest.
2. A group of people whose opinions are considered unimportant: "Pressure is building ... to force ... Alan Greenspan to cut interest rates and pump up the money supply. [He] has politely ignored these catcalls from the peanut gallery" (H. Erich Heinemann).

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