beans en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
- /biːnz/
Meanings
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(form-of, plural) plural of bean
form of bean
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(plural, plural-only, qualifier:urban, slang) Pills; drugs in pill form.
popping beans
- (plural, plural-only, slang, vulgar) The testicles.
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(in the negative, plural, plural-only, slang) An insignificant value or amount.
In a fast changing interest rate environment – particularly when rates rise fast – your verbal agreement isn’t worth beans.
1999, Ozzie Jurock, Forget about… “Location, Location, Location!”: The Definitive Real Estate Investor Guide for the New Millennium, →ISBN, page 159:I left home and school at 16, and worked as a janitor, a printer, a salesperson, a busboy, and hustled briefly when I was 19 to make ends meet. I live with a lover now who is a well paid academic, but I make beans as a writer.
1981 December 12, Scott Tucker, “Bring On The Cannon”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 5:But social confirmation doesn’t amount to beans when it comes to knowing the truth.
2012, Bob Altemeyer, “Dogmatism and Authoritarianism”, in Don Ambrose, Robert J. Sternberg, editors, How Dogmatic Beliefs Harm Creativity and Higher-Level Thinking, →ISBN, page 62:
- (plural, plural-only, slang) An animal's pawpads.
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(Internet, plural, plural-only, qualifier:self-harm) The hypodermis.
He told me he reached beans. I hope he’ll be okay.
- (archaic, plural, plural-only, slang) Money.
Relateds
red beans and rice · tough beans · not worth beans · chili beans · baking beans · get beans · bullets and beans · mini beans · not care beans · beans and rice · baked beans · rice and beans
Synonyms
apples · cherries · bags · knackers · acorns · beans · nads (UK · love spuds · bubbles · gooseberries · testes · bollocks · baws · twins · stepchildren · hill of beans · Jatz crackers · bolls · yarbles · bangers · testicles · store · teabags · stones · jawbreakers · crown jewels · yams · klackers · taters · sweetmeats · nuts · family jewels · huevos · giggle berries · gonads · lamb fries · marbles · loins · row of pins · pebbles · profiteroles · chicken nuggets · spuds · Jacobs · cullions · cojones · clockweights · goolies · eggs · ballocks · bean bags · nards · coin purse · plums · agates · berries · bannocks · cubes · US) · cobblers · swingers · boys · potatoes · tests · cods · orchis · pods · chuckles · apricots · nadgers · rocks · balls · watermelons