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bean-bag

bean-bag is the alternative form of beanbag.

Meaning of beanbag

Noun

beanbag (plural beanbags)

  1. A small cloth bag filled with drybeans, used as a toy or for exercising the hands.
    • Does it bounce around like a superball in a hollow cavity? Or does it rapidly lose its force, like a beanbag hitting a pillow?1992, Rick Altman, Sound theory, sound practice, page 40
    Synonyms:
    hacky sack
  2. A type of juggling ball usually made from leather or cloth stuffed with dry beans.
  3. (plural-normally, slang) A testicle.
  4. (derogatory, slang) An idiot.

See all 5 meanings of beanbag

Forms of bean-bag

pluralbean-bags

Phrases with bean-bag

Questions about bean-bag

What is bean-bag the alternative form of?
Bean-bag is the alternative form of beanbag.

Words near bean-bag in the dictionary

  1. bean wagon
  2. bean wagons
  3. bean weevil
  4. bean weevils
  5. bean't
  6. bean-bag
  7. bean-bag chair
  8. bean-bag chairs
  9. bean-bags
  10. bean-belly
  11. bean-brush

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bean-bag (page history and authors); beanbag (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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