jello

A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavoring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set.CanadaUSuncountable

• The jello was gone in five minutes and the cigarette smoked.
• Distribution of cherry jello was stepped up to college campus towns across America.

A dessert made by boiling gelatin in water.uncountable

• 1977, Florence King, WASP, Where is Thy Sting?, excerpt, in The Florence King Reader, 1996 St. Martin's Press ed., →ISBN, page 25, Alex Portnoy thought his mother had magical powers because she could suspend fruit in mid-Jello.