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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /biːnz/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -iːnz
Noun
[edit]beans
Noun
[edit]beans pl (plural only)
- (slang, urban) Pills; drugs in pill form.
- popping beans
- (slang, vulgar) Testes.
- (slang, chiefly in the negative) An insignificant value or amount.
- Synonyms: hill of beans, row of pins; see also Thesaurus:nothing
- 1981 December 12, Scott Tucker, “Bring On The Cannon”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 5:
- 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.
- 2012, Bob Altemeyer, “Dogmatism and Authoritarianism”, in Don Ambrose, Robert J. Sternberg, editors, How Dogmatic Beliefs Harm Creativity and Higher-Level Thinking, →ISBN, page 62:
- But social confirmation doesn’t amount to beans when it comes to knowing the truth.
- (slang, archaic) Money.
- (slang) An animal’s pawpads.
- (slang, self-harm community) A cut that reaches the hypodermis.
- He told me he reached beans, I hope he’ll be okay.
Verb
[edit]beans
- third-person singular simple present indicative of bean
References
[edit]- (money): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Present participle of beō.
Participle
[edit]beāns (genitive beantis); third-declension one-termination participle
Declension
[edit]Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | beāns | beantēs | beantia | ||
Genitive | beantis | beantium | |||
Dative | beantī | beantibus | |||
Accusative | beantem | beāns | beantēs beantīs |
beantia | |
Ablative | beante beantī1 |
beantibus | |||
Vocative | beāns | beantēs | beantia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
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