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baked bean

baked bean noun: a single bean in a portion of baked beans.

Noun

baked bean (plural baked beans)

  1. A single bean in a portion of baked beans.
  2. (attributive) baked beans
    • Catweazle paused, about to drink from an old baked-bean tin while Touchwood looked on beadily.1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 49
  3. (Cockney, slang) The queen.
    • 'Nah, listen to me, me old china,' he said, wrapping a kindly paw around my shoulder. 'I don't know the old baked bean. […] Yep, I don't know the baked bean, but I do know someone who's friends with her corgis and they're right little lords and ladies, so I don't reckon they'd knock around with an...2015, John Tovey, A Puppy Called Dez
    • The Baked Bean
      Although I am patriotic, I don't consider myself a Royalist per se, but I challenge even the most hardened anti-monarchist to meet the Queen and not be slightly awed.2019, Cat Williams, From Prison to Palace

Forms of baked bean

pluralbaked beans

Questions about baked bean

What does baked bean mean?
Baked bean means a single bean in a portion of baked beans.
What part of speech is baked bean?
Baked bean is a noun.
What is the plural of baked bean?
The plural of baked bean is baked beans.

Words near baked bean in the dictionary

  1. bakeboards
  2. bakecraft
  3. baked
  4. baked Alaska
  5. baked Alaskas
  6. baked bean
  7. baked beans
  8. baked good
  9. baked goods
  10. baked in
  11. baked off

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