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beans

  • /biːnz/

Rhymes with -iːnz

noun

  1. plural plural of bean

noun

  1. plural, plural only, slang Pills; drugs in pill form. popping beans
  2. plural, plural only, slang, vulgar The testicles.

    Similar: testicles, testes, acorns, agates, apples, apricots, bags, ballocks, balls, bangers, bannocks, baws

  3. plural, plural only, slang, in the negative An insignificant value or amount. 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.

    Similar: hill of beans, row of pins

  4. plural, plural only, slang An animal's pawpads.
  5. Internet, plural, plural only The hypodermis. He told me he reached beans. I hope he’ll be okay.
  6. archaic, plural, plural only, slang Money.

verb

  1. indicative, present, singular, third person third-person singular simple present indicative of bean

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: noodle, noggin, attic, bean plant, edible bean, coffee, grains, refried, soya, seed, soy, soybean, sunflower, brains, cahoots, gpt

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@misc{beans_2026,
  title = {beans},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/beans},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}