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A genericization of the trademark Reese's, a popular brand of peanut butter cup, thus applied to all peanut butter cups.
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A genericization of the trademark Reese's, a popular brand of peanut butter cup, thus applied to all peanut butter cups.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.