beano

UK/ˈbiːnəʊ/

beano noun: a beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party. Also the alternative form of bingo.

Noun

beano (plural beanos)

A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party.
- You gas like a kid at a Sunday School beano.1912, Katherine Mansfield, “The Woman at the Store”, in Selected Short Stories
- For all she knew, Upjohn might have got the holiday spirit and be planning to remain burning up the boulevards indefinitely, and of course nothing gives a big beano a black eye more surely than the failure to show up of the principal speaker.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
(figuratively) Any home-made gas or indigestion remedy.

beano is also the alternative form of bingo.

‘Every year,’ said Lord Galen happily, ‘I have this little beano as a farewell treat before leaving France.’1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 419:
“Everyone was having a beano, everyone was partying, the music was going, it was mint – as soon as England won we booked it.”2024 July 14, Rachel Hall, quoting Ashley Cullen, “‘I’ve never seen owt like it’: England fans in Benidorm in high spirits before Euro...

plural	beanos

Clipping of beanfeast + -o.

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What does beano mean?: Beano means a beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party.
How do you use beano in a sentence?: ‘Every year,’ said Lord Galen happily, ‘I have this little beano as a farewell treat before leaving France.’
What part of speech is beano?: Beano is a noun.
How do you pronounce beano?: Beano is pronounced /ˈbiːnəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of beano?: The plural of beano is beanos.

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