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bean
noun- anything at all; very little US, 1833
- And another thing–the race made me feel inferior, started me thinking that maybe I wasn’t worth beans as a musician or any kind of artist, in spite of all my big ideas. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 239, 1946
- — Raging Bull, 1980
- He’s makin’ beans compared to what he should be makin’. — Raging Bull, 1980
- I had nothing. Not a fuckin’ bean[.] — Shaun Ryder, Shaun Ryder... in His Own Words, 1996
- a dollar US, 1902
- And I want four hundred beans for the Dinch and I want it soon. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 269, 1952
- He was into me for about seventy beans, and it didn’t show signs of getting any better. — Harlan Ellison, Gentleman Junkie, p. 142, 1961: High Dice
- In three weeks after they showed I got my vines out of hock and was doing about fifteen beans a day. — Babs Gonzales, Movin’ On Down De Line, p. 6, 1975
- Pals of mine at the Ventura courthouse said he logged twenty-one hundred sixty-six beans of the ransom money into the evidence locker. — James Ellroy, Hollywood Nocturnes, p. 187, 1994
- a coin UK, 1799
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 7, 1945
- in American casinos, a $1 betting chip US
- — Albert H. Morehead, The Complete Guide to Winning Poker, p. 256, 1967
- — Steve Kuriscak, Casino Talk, p. 3, 1985
- a man, a fellow, especially as a form of address UK, 1917
Often embellished to “old bean”. - Donny old bean! What a nite. Michelle J gave me a gobble. Details later. — Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing, p. 121, 2002
- a Mexican, Mexican-American or Latin American US, 1949
- — Maledicta, p. 151, Summer and Winter 1978: “How to hate thy neighbor: a guide to racist maledicta”
- a capsule or tablet of Benzedrine (amphetamine sulphate), a central nervous system stimulant US, 1967
- After a particularly lackluster effort, I asked a friend of the Cal team what happened. “Oh, it was simple. We just ran out of beans (amphetamines).” — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 57, 23 September 1971
- I ran down the pill man and bought out his supply of beans. — Donald Goines, Whoreson, p. 200, 1972
- “One of my first nights at Obie’s, Delise asked me if I had any beans[.]” — Anne Steinhardt, Thunder La Boom, p. 126, 1974
- One game owner I knew goes through a daily ritual of passing out a BEAN to each of his agents before they start work[.] — Gene Sorrows, All About Carnivals, p. 10, 1985
- a capsule of a central nervous system depressant UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 282, 2003
- a capsule of MDMAUS
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 1, Spring 2000
- — Don R. McCreary (Editor), Dawg Speak, 2001
- Baldness and E[.] Are beans to blame for losing your barnet [hair]? — Mixmag, p. 3, April 2003
- the head US, 1905
- [T]heir well-educated little beans[.] — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 42, 1970
- the hymen US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 24, 1950
- the penis US
- — Dale Gordon, The Dominion Sex Dictionary, p. 27, 1967
- the clitoris UK
- The scenes with her flicking her bean [masturbating] are fucking good. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 228, 2001
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