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Noun: peanut gallery
  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"
     
  2. Rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats
    - second balcony, family circle, upper balcony

Derived forms: peanut galleries

Type of: area, people

Part of: balcony

Encyclopedia: Peanut gallery