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cool beans

/kuːl biːnz/

cool beans interjection: a humorous and lighthearted nonsense phrase indicating approval or mild excitement: great, wow.

Interjection

  1. (childish) A humorous and lighthearted nonsense phrase indicating approval or mild excitement: great, wow.
    • Cheech: “Hey man, look at this car made out of weed!” / Chong: “Oh cool beans, man!”1978, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Up in Smoke, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong (Cheech & Chong) (actors), Los Angeles, Calif.: Paramount Home Video, →OCLC
    • ‘It’s cool beans!’ That’s what Betsy always says when she thinks something is fantastic, and I couldn’t help wondering what she’d say if she could see me now.1985, Marlene Fanta Shyer, Grandpa Ritz and the Luscious Lovelies, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 30

Forms of cool beans

alternative formkewl beans

Words that rhyme with cool beans

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Questions about cool beans

What does cool beans mean?
Cool beans means a humorous and lighthearted nonsense phrase indicating approval or mild excitement: great, wow.
What part of speech is cool beans?
Cool beans is an interjection.
How do you pronounce cool beans?
Cool beans is pronounced /kuːl biːnz/.

Words near cool beans in the dictionary

  1. cool arrows
  2. cool art
  3. cool as a cucumber
  4. cool bag
  5. cool bags
  6. cool beans
  7. cool box
  8. cool boxes
  9. Cool Britannia
  10. cool burn
  11. cool cat

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