Beans

/biːnz/ · noun

Meaning

plural of bean.

Definitions by Sense

1. plural of bean
2. (slang, urban) Pills; drugs in pill form.
3. (slang, vulgar) The testicles.
4. (slang, chiefly in the negative) An insignificant value or amount.
5. (slang) An animal's pawpads.
6. (Internet slang, self-harm) The hypodermis.
7. (slang, archaic) Money.
8. third-person singular simple present indicative of bean

Example Sentences

popping beans

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.

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

But social confirmation doesn’t amount to beans when it comes to knowing the truth.

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

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