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old beans

old beans is the plural of old bean.

Meaning of old bean

Noun

old bean (plural old beans)

  1. (UK, dated, slang, sometimes, term-of-address) An old friend; an old chap or fellow.
    • […] it is really an uncommon piece of exaggerative imagination which we find in the description of this old bean's elaborate costume, with its pads, straps, strings […]1876, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 37, page 238

Questions about old beans

What is old beans the plural of?
Old beans is the plural of old bean.

Words near old beans in the dictionary

  1. Old Basford
  2. Old Basing
  3. Old Basing and Lychpit
  4. Old Beach
  5. old bean
  6. old beans
  7. Old Belarusian
  8. Old Believer
  9. Old Believers
  10. Old Bering Sea
  11. Old Bill

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