beaner

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Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈbinɚ/
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Etymology 1

 beaner on Wikipedia

From bean +‎ -er. Literally "a person who eats beans".

Beans are a staple of Mexican cuisine.

Noun

beaner (plural beaners)

  1. (US, ethnic slur, offensive) A Mexican.
    • 1999, Gregory Alan Norton, There Ain't no Justice, Just Us, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 32:
      You're gonna work out good, Dave. I was afraid they were gonna hire another nigger or a beaner.
    • 2003, Roy Yelverton, “chapter 2”, in Shovelhead Red – The Drifter's Way‎, archived from the original on 4 August 2007:
      Hey bro I'm a beaner, we ain't good at math. Jeez, dawn 'ju watch TV?
    • 2005, Carlos Mencia, Mind of Mencia:
      I'm a beaner, and I'm telling you white people, that's a bullshit number right off the bat!
  2. (US, ethnic slur, offensive, by extension) Any Hispanic person.
  3. (sometimes offensive, slang) Used as a casual term of address to a friend or acquaintance, especially used by Mexican Americans.
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References

  • John Sutherland (2000 July 31) “You are what you eat ... arguably”, in The Guardian‎

Etymology 2

bean +‎ -er; see bean (“(slang) head”).

Noun

beaner (plural beaners)

  1. (baseball) A pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter.
  2. (by extension, informal) Head.
    • 2001 October 2, William, “Capturing Group Therapy Hours?”, in microsoft.public.access.forms‎ (Usenet):
      Any ideas on how I could solve this problem? This seems to be beyond what my beaner can solve right now....I hope all this work wasn't for nothing!
    • 2004 April 30, Active8 , “Re: Smith Chart question”, in sci.electronics.design‎ (Usenet):
      I know what picture yer referring to, but I didn't have a problem with that because the fundamentals of reactance have been in my beaner since I was a teen.
    • 2011, Mike Griffin, Tales of the Lost Flamingo, AuthorHouse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 159:
      Before Chester could compose himself, the Bombshell leaned over and planted a ruby red smackaroo right on top of his bald spot. Chester Cranepool had had a few things hit him on top of his head before, but nothing that felt that good. Looking like a Franciscan monk with a bullseye on his beaner, Chester simply said, “Bless you, my child.”
  3. (US, slang, dated) A superior or admirable person; something excellent.
    • 1942, Forrest Edwin Long, Philip Westcot Lawrence Cox, The Clearing House, page 527:
      Gee, that would be a beaner of a sign for education
    • 1949, Martha Ostenso, The Sunset Tree, Dodd, Mead, page 106:
      Pride, indeed, Esther thought — that was a beaner! There was more purse than pride in Mayme's repentant heart
Usage notes

This sense of a superior or admirable person, from U.S. baseball slang in the 1940s and 1950s, is now almost completely superseded.

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References
  • Lester V. Berrey and Melvín van den Bark (1953) American Thesaurus of Slang: A Complete Reference Book of Colloquial Speech, Crowell, page 27,354,375

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