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• Peanut gallery — Not to be confused with Peanut allergy. A peanut gallery is an audience that heckles the performer. The term originated in the days of vaudeville as a nickname for the cheapest (and ostensibly rowdiest) seats in the theater; the least expensive… …   Wikipedia

• peanut gallery — noun a) The upper balcony in a racially segregated venues such as a theatre to which black patrons were restricted.<ref name= LtA >Listening to America: An Illustrated History of Words and Phrases from Our Lively and Splendid Past by Stuart …   Wiktionary

• peanut gallery — 1. Informal. the rearmost and cheapest section of seats in the balcony or the uppermost balcony of a theater. 2. Slang. a source of insignificant criticism: No remarks from the peanut gallery! [1885 90, Amer.] * * * …   Universalium

• peanut gallery — noun 1. (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) he ignored complaints from the peanut gallery •… …   Useful english dictionary

• peanut gallery — pea′nut gal lery n. sl. 1) inf the rearmost and cheapest section of seats in the balcony of a theater 2) sts a source of insignificant criticism: No remarks from the peanut gallery![/ex] • Etymology: 1885–90, amer …   From formal English to slang

• Peanut gallery — Pea nut gal ler*y 1. the cheapest seats in a theater, being typically those farthest from the stage, as in the uppermost balcony. [PJC] 2. in a television show for children, the section where visiting children sit as guests during the performance …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• peanut gallery — peanut ,gallery noun singular AMERICAN INFORMAL the least expensive seats at the back of a theater, or the people who sit in them. This word sometimes shows that you think these people are not important …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• peanut gallery — ☆ peanut gallery n. Slang the topmost balcony section in a theater, where the cheaper seats are located …   English World dictionary

• peanut gallery — noun N. Amer. informal the top gallery in a theatre, where the cheaper seats are located …   English new terms dictionary

• peanut gallery — noun (C) AmE humorous the cheap rows of seats at the back of a theatre or cinema …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Gallery —    The highest level of theatre auditorium seating, usually a tier above the balcony, held the cheapest seats, sometimes called the heavens. In many cases, a theatregoer paid admission for unreserved seating in the gallery, and thus there could… …   The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater