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get beans

get beans verb: to be severely punished, reprimanded, or to suffer consequences.

Verb

get beans (third-person singular simple present gets beans, present participle getting beans, simple past got beans, past participle (UK) got beans or (US) gotten beans)

  1. (dated, idiomatic, informal) To be severely punished, reprimanded, or to suffer consequences.

Forms of get beans

third-person singular presentgets beans
present participlegetting beans
pastgot beans
past participle UKgot beans
past participle USgotten beans

Questions about get beans

What does get beans mean?
Get beans means to be severely punished, reprimanded, or to suffer consequences.
What part of speech is get beans?
Get beans is a verb.
What is the past tense of get beans?
The past tense of get beans is got beans.

Words near get beans in the dictionary

  1. get back
  2. get back at
  3. get back on the horse
  4. get back on the horse that bucked one
  5. get back to
  6. get beans
  7. get behind
  8. get bent
  9. get bent out of shape
  10. get better
  11. get between

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