baked bean

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English

Noun

baked bean (plural baked beans)

  1. A single bean in a portion of baked beans.
  2. (Cockney rhyming slang) The queen.
    • 2015, John Tovey, A Puppy Called Dez:
      'Nah, listen to me, me old china,' he said, wrapping a kindly paw around my shoulder. 'I don't know the old baked bean. [] Yep, I don't know the baked bean, but I do know someone who's friends with her corgis and they're right little lords and ladies, so I don't reckon they'd knock around with an old fella like me.'
    • 2019, Cat Williams, From Prison to Palace:
      The Baked Bean
      Although I am patriotic, I don't consider myself a Royalist per se, but I challenge even the most hardened anti-monarchist to meet the Queen and not be slightly awed.