Tuesday's slang word of the day: bread and butter

Today's slang word of the day is bread and butter. Its definitions appear below. Click here to vote on usage and vulgarity, to see words that share the same meaning, and to see words that share the same root words.

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.

  • See more words with the same meaning: business (related to).
  • See more words with the same meaning: money.

  Last edited on Nov 03 2011. Submitted by Jeff K. from Reno, NV, USA on Sep 01 2002.

Enjoy!

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com) from The Online Slang Dictionary

P.S. Sorry about the blacked out citations. Google penalizes the dictionary if I show them. (There's a bunch of information about the penalty here.)