jelly

1. (Commonwealth) A dessert made by boiling gelatine (or a plant-based alternative such as agar or carrageenan), sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set.Examples: "His mother prepared jelly for him and his friends for dessert."Synonyms: jello, jello, Jell-OCommonwealthcountableuncountable

2. (chiefly Canada, US) A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin.Examples: "Perfect jelly is of appetizing flavor; beautifully colored and translucent; tender enough to cut easily with a spoon, yet firm enough to hold its shape when turned from the glass."; "Jelly has great clarity. Two cooking processes are involved. First, the juice alone is extracted from the fruit. Only that portion thin and clear enough to drip through a cloth is cooked with sugar until sufficiently firm to hold its shape. It is never stiff and never gummy."Synonyms: jam, jam, marmaladeCanadaUScountableuncountable

3. (Caribbean, Jamaica) Clipping of jelly coconut.CaribbeanJamaicaabbreviationalt-ofclippingcountableuncountable

4. (zoology) A jellyfish.Examples: "Species of the phylum Cnidaria – the classic jelly – have existed in something close to their current form for at least 565 million years; Ctenophora, the comb jellies, are not much younger."countableuncountable

5. (slang, now rare) A pretty girl; a girlfriend.Examples: "‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He′s got a jelly there.’"archaiccountableslanguncountable

6. (US, slang) A large backside, especially a woman's.Examples: "I shake my jelly at every chance / When I whip with my hips you slip into a trance"; "At that Sister Samantha seemed to shake her jelly so that she sank back into her chair."UScountableslanguncountable