Definition of bread and butter
bread and butter 
noun
- the main source of income for a business.
Software is our bread and butter.
Citation from "Pilot", American Dad (TV), Season 1 Episode 1 (2005) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.Barbecue ribs are my bread and butter.
- See more words with the same meaning: business (related to).
- See more words with the same meaning: money.
Last edited on Apr 19 2013. Submitted by Jeff K. from Reno, NV, USA on Sep 01 2002.
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Other terms relating to 'business (related to)': | |
| Definitions include: clothing | |
| Definitions include: a break in the workday when employees gather to ingest drugs. | |
| Definitions include: busy. | |
| Definitions include: the busy, hectic modern urban lifestyle. | |
| Definitions include: to upper management. | |
| Definitions include: a person who always agrees with superiors. | |
| Definitions include: to invent ideas and solutions, usually by coming up with as many as possible while not rejecting any out of hand. | |
| Definitions include: at a place of employment, to do little work while waiting for one's stock options to vest. | |
| Definitions include: work (in a professional or educational setting) that is designed to keep a person busy, but to not permit that person to accomplish anything of note. | |
| Definitions include: to go free from a criminal charge. | |
| Definitions include: pejorative term used for management / consulting / executive types, who are more likely to wear business suits than the average worker. | |
| Definitions include: a "professional wrestler" who loses matches so as to build up a featured wrestler's win/loss record and crowd appeal. | |
| Definitions include: "business". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "another bloody cathedral" or "another bloody church". | |
| Definitions include: "co-worker". | |
Other terms relating to 'money': | |
| Definitions include: spelling variant of "moola", meaning money. | |
| Definitions include: breasts. | |
| Definitions include: a five dollar bill. | |
| Definitions include: a large amount of money. | |
| Definitions include: a person who has not had their first kiss or has never French kissed. | |
| Definitions include: a $100 bill. | |
| Definitions include: a five pound note. | |
| Definitions include: a five dollar bill. | |
| Definitions include: money in general. | |
| Definitions include: counterfeit money. | |
| Definitions include: one thousand dollars. | |
| Definitions include: to fight. | |
| Definitions include: in agreement. | |
| Definitions include: money. | |
| Definitions include: money. | |
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Other terms relating to 'and': | |
| Definitions include: Assault and Battery | |
| Definitions include: Rain. | |
| Definitions include: Cockney rhyme for ''believe''. | |
| Definitions include: to talk a lot but never take action. | |
| Definitions include: clumsy. | |
| Definitions include: better than all that. | |
| Definitions include: the best. | |
| Definitions include: Without substance, All talk and no action | |
| Definitions include: a lot of money. | |
| Definitions include: to get fouled in basketball and make the basket | |
| Definitions include: used to indicate an extreme condition or an excessive amount. | |
| Definitions include: et cetera. | |
| Definitions include: used to indicate an extreme condition or an excessive amount. | |
| Definitions include: a quantity between 1 and one order of magnitude lower than the quantity previously mentioned. | |
| Definitions include: interjection of agreement. | |
Other terms relating to 'bread': | |
| Definitions include: something excellent, useful, etc. | |
| Definitions include: money. | |
| Definitions include: vagina | |
| Definitions include: in the user interface of a software product (including websites,) something that displays the locations that the user has recently viewed or visited. | |
| Definitions include: rhyming slang for "dead". | |
| Definitions include: to not upset those that can help you. | |
| Definitions include: bland, uninspired, boring, or insipid. | |
Other terms relating to 'butter': | |
| Definitions include: complete nonsense or something that is not true; bullshit. | |
| Definitions include: very good, excellent; "cool". | |
| Definitions include: To knuckle down; To submit to; To melt down; Unable to take the heat; To give in | |
| Definitions include: inebriated. | |
| Definitions include: a woman with an attractive body, but an ugly face. | |
| Definitions include: very ugly. | |
| Definitions include: to defecate. | |
| Definitions include: to flatter, especially for future gain. | |
| Definitions include: sweat and other substances that gather near the genitals. | |
| Definitions include: sweat and other substances that gather near the genitals. | |
| Definitions include: to be on the receiving end of anal intercourse. | |
| Definitions include: to not upset those that can help you. | |
| Definitions include: Semen. | |
| Definitions include: semen. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "peanut butter." | |
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