BREAD AND BUTTER meaning: Basic, essential source of income

We found 27 dictionaries that define the word bread and butter:

General (22 matching dictionaries)

bread-and-butter, bread and butter: Merriam-Webster
bread and butter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
bread-and-butter, bread and butter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
bread-and-butter, bread-and-butter, bread and butter: Collins English Dictionary
bread and butter: Vocabulary.com
bread and butter: Wordnik
bread-and-butter, bread and butter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
bread-and-butter, bread and butter: Wiktionary
bread-and-butter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
bread and butter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
bread and butter: Infoplease Dictionary
Bread and butter, bread-and-butter, bread and butter: Dictionary.com
bread-and-butter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Bread and Butter (The Newbeats song), Bread and butter (disambiguation), Bread and butter (superstition), Bread and butter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
bread and butter: Rhymezone
bread and butter: FreeDictionary.org
bread and butter: Mnemonic Dictionary
Bread and Butter: The Word Detective
bread-and-butter, bread and butter: TheFreeDictionary.com
bread and butter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

bread and butter: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

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bread-and-butter, bread and butter: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

bread and butter, bread and butter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
bread and butter: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bread and butter)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) That which is central or fundamental, as to one's business, survival, or income; a staple or cornerstone.
▸ noun:  (idiomatic) The basic requirements of living, such as food and housing.
▸ noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bread, butter.

Opposite:

jelly, jam, preserves

Phrases:

bread and butter pickle, bread and butter issue, bread and butter letter, bread and butter pudding, bread and butter letters, more...

Adjectives:

red-faced, red-blooded, top secret, very good, flat out, late antique, number one, blue-eyed, bread-and-butter, red ball, all the same

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