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beans

/binz/

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What does beans mean?

noun

  1. plural of bean
  2. (slang) Pills; drugs in pill form.
  3. (slang) An insignificant value or amount.
More meanings (5)

noun

  1. (slang) An animal's pawpads.
  2. The hypodermis.
  3. (slang, vulgar) The testicles.
  4. (archaic, slang) Money.

verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bean

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IPA pronunciation

/binz/

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The fertile soil of the valleys produces a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, including citrus, sugarcane, watermelons, bananas, yams, and beans.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1990 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #14
That evening after supper, Carl and Alexandra were sitting by the clump of castor beans in the middle of the flower garden.
Willa CatherO Pioneers!Project Gutenberg ebook #24
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Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the bots.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men?
Henry David ThoreauWalden, and On The Duty Of Civil DisobedienceProject Gutenberg ebook #205
For there grows no corn, ne wine, ne beans, ne peas, ne none other fruit convenable to man for to live with.
John, Sir MandevilleThe Travels of Sir John MandevilleProject Gutenberg ebook #782