beans
/biːnz/
beans is the plural of bean.
beans is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bean.
Noun
beans pl (plural only)
- Pills; drugs in pill form.
- popping beans
- The testicles.
- 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.1981 December 12, Scott Tucker, “Bring On The Cannon”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 5
- In a fast changing interest rate environment – particularly when rates rise fast – your verbal agreement isn’t worth beans.1999, Ozzie Jurock, Forget about… “Location, Location, Location!”: The Definitive Real Estate Investor Guide for the New Millennium, →ISBN, page 159
- Synonyms:
- hill of beans, row of pins
- An animal's pawpads.
- The hypodermis.
- He told me he reached beans. I hope he’ll be okay.
- Money.
Meaning of bean
Noun
bean (plural beans)
- Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
- Beans are a large group of leguminous vegetables that serve as a main source of proteins in human diet. This group comprises several species and some of them are Adzuki bean (Vigna angularis); Broad bean (Vicia faba); Cluster bean (Cyamposis tetragonoloba); French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris); […] .2004, T. N. Shivenanda, B. R. V. Iyengar, Phosphorus Management in French Bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.), Ramdane Dris, S. Mohan Jain (editors), Production Practices and Quality Assessment of Food...
- The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean, or garbanzo bean).
- The edible seedpod of such a plant.
- Green beans, also called French beans, can be pickled.
- The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such as a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.
- An object resembling a pea or bean in shape, often made from plastic or styrofoam and used in large numbers as packing material or as stuffing for beanbags and similar items.
- The head or brain.
- Now, there was a perfectly sound forecast for you. Certainly a case of using the old bean. The surmise was perfectly logical.1959, Maxwell Droke, You and the World to Come, page 173
- Synonyms:
- noggin
Synonyms of beans
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Phrases with beans
- bay beans
- bog beans
- cow beans
- dry beans
- for beans
- goa beans
- hot beans
- mat beans
- old beans
- pea beans
- red beans
- sea beans
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- soy beans
- tic beans
- toe beans
- wax beans
- yam beans
- baby beans
- bell beans
- blue beans
- buck beans
- bush beans
- ceci beans
- chad beans
- cool beans
- faba beans
- fava beans
- fine beans
- flat beans
- guar beans
- jack beans
- jugo beans
- kewl beans
- lima beans
- Lyon beans
- mash beans
- mole beans
- moth beans
- mung beans
- navy beans
- pink beans
- pole beans
- rice beans
- sand beans
- snap beans
- soja beans
- soup beans
- soya beans
- tick beans
- wild beans
- wolf beans
- aduki beans
- azuki beans
- bayou beans
- beach beans
- beans bunny
- black beans
- bobby beans
- broad beans
- brown beans
- cacao beans
- carob beans
- China beans
- civet beans
- cocoa beans
- dilly beans
- dwarf beans
- Enola beans
- field beans
- fresh beans
- green beans
- guava beans
- gully beans
- helda beans
- hog's beans
- horse beans
- human beans
- jelly beans
- jolly beans
- jumby beans
- lupin beans
- matpe beans
- mongo beans
- moong beans
- mungo beans
- pinto beans
- Roman beans
- screw beans
- shell beans
- shuck beans
- sieva beans
- silly beans
- snail beans
- snake beans
- stink beans
- sugar beans
- sword beans
- tonca beans
- tonga beans
- tonka beans
- Welsh beans
- white beans
- adsuki beans
- adzuki beans
- Bengal beans
- bitter beans
- boston beans
- butter beans
- calico beans
- castor beans
- charro beans
- coffee beans
- common beans
- corona beans
- cowboy beans
- desert beans
- dollar beans
- donkey beans
- double beans
- edible beans
- entity beans
- french beans
- golden beans
- goober beans
- Indian beans
- jering beans
- jumbie beans
- kidney beans
- locust beans
- lupini beans
- maloga beans
- Manila beans
- marama beans
- marrow beans
- mescal beans
- morama beans
- nicker beans
- ordeal beans
- pigeon beans
- poison beans
- potato beans
- Romano beans
- runner beans
- sacred beans
- shucky beans
- stinky beans
- string beans
- tepary beans
- tonqua beans
- velvet beans
- winged beans
- wonder beans
- Yankee beans
- yellow beans
- Anasazi beans
- backing beans
- beans bunnies
- buffalo beans
- Calabar beans
- cluster beans
- djenkol beans
- English beans
- Florida beans
- full of beans
- gemsbok beans
- haricot beans
- hill of beans
- jumping beans
- Malacca beans
- managed beans
- Mexican beans
- Molucca beans
- refried beans
- scarlet beans
- session beans
- smoking beans
- Spanish beans
- tonquin beans
- vanilla beans
- wax-pod beans
- Windsor beans
- algaroba beans
- beans on toast
- borlotti beans
- campfire beans
- Egyptian beans
- European beans
- garbanzo beans
- gemsbuck beans
- hills of beans
- hyacinth beans
- Ignatius beans
- matchbox beans
Words that rhyme with beans
- greens
- teens
- leans
- means
- -enes
- by no means
- campfire beans
- cool beans
- figurines
- gleans
- intervenes
- jeans
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Questions about beans
- What does beans mean?
- Beans means pills; drugs in pill form.
- What is beans the plural of?
- Beans is the plural of bean.
- What part of speech is beans?
- Beans is a noun.
- How do you pronounce beans?
- Beans is pronounced /biːnz/.
Words near beans in the dictionary
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