baked bean

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.