beans

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• IPA^(key): /biːnz/

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• Rhymes: -iːnz

beans

1. plural of bean

beans pl (plural only)

1. (slang, urban) Pills; drugs in pill form.

   popping beans

2. (slang, vulgar) The testicles.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:testicles

3. (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.

   • 1999, Ozzie Jurock, Forget about… “Location, Location, Location!”: The Definitive Real Estate Investor Guide for the New Millennium, →ISBN, page 159:

     In a fast changing interest rate environment – particularly when rates rise fast – your verbal agreement isn’t worth beans.

   • 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.

4. (slang) An animal's pawpads.
5. (Internet slang, self-harm) The hypodermis.

   He told me he reached beans, I hope he’ll be okay.

6. (slang, archaic) Money.

beans

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bean

• [John Camden Hotten] (1859) “BEANS”, in A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, , London: John Camden Hotten, , →OCLC.

• BANES, Banes, Benas, banes, basen, besan, nabes, nesba

Present participle of beō.

beāns (genitive beantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. blessing, gladdening, enriching

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

beans

1. definite genitive singular of bea