Beaner
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beaner¹
- /ˈbinɚ/ US
Rhymes with -iːnə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From bean + -er. Literally "a person who eats beans", since beans are a staple of Mexican cuisine, and eaten in Boston as Boston baked beans.
noun beaners
- A Mexican. You're gonna work out good, Dave. I was afraid they were gonna hire another nigger or a beaner.
- Any Hispanic or Latino person.
- A casual term of address, especially used by Mexican Americans.
- A Bostonian; a person from Boston, Massachusetts. In Boston the beaners found out what a good show we had when we jumped to Albany. But all the while the Boston press praised and they heeded not until it was too late and then they added their regrets to ours.
beaner²
- /ˈbinɚ/ US
Rhymes with -iːnə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From bean + -er; see bean (“(slang) head”).
noun beaners
- A pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter.
- Head. Any ideas on how I could solve this problem? This seems to be beyond what my beaner can solve right now....I hope all this work wasn't for nothing!
- A superior or admirable person; something excellent. Gee, that would be a beaner of a sign for education
Similar: beanball
Beaner³
proper noun Beaners
- A surname
- A surname originating as an occupation, from being a bean-seller
- A nickname, diminutive of McBean.
