banana peels
Cartoon slip culprits
Banana peels are the outer skins of bananas, discarded after eating the fruit.
They're proverbially slippery—someone stepping on one and falling is a stock comedy gag.
To slip on a banana peel can mean any sudden, unexpected misfortune: The campaign was cruising until they slipped on a banana peel.
- peelingsRemoved outer layers
- Donkey KongNintendo's barrel-hurling simian
- pratfallsStaged comedic falls
- compostDecayed organic fertilizer
- slipperyLacking friction, hard-to-grasp
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- peelsparings, rind, orange rind, lemon rind, lime rind
- Visual Comedyslapstick, pratfall, pratfalls, sight gag, sight gags
- compostablesfood scraps, food waste, kitchen scraps, yard waste, leaves
- littertrash, garbage, litter, plastic bags, bottles
- vermicultureworm bin, worm bins, worm farm, worm castings, vermicompost
- Attractantslure, bait, attractants, pheromone, pheromones
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