beans
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
beans
Noun edit
beans pl (plural only)
- (slang, urban) Pills; drugs in pill form.
- popping beans
- (slang, vulgar) Testes.
- (slang, chiefly in the negative) An insignificant value or amount.
- Synonyms: hill of beans, row of pins; see also Thesaurus:nothing
- 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.
- (slang, archaic) Money.
- (slang) An animal’s pawpads.
- (slang, self-harm community) A cut that reaches the hypodermis.
- He told me he reached beans, I hope he’ll be okay.
Verb edit
beans
- third-person singular simple present indicative of bean
References edit
- (money): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Present participle of beō.
Participle edit
beāns (genitive beantis); third-declension one-termination participle
Declension edit
Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | beāns | beantēs | beantia | ||
Genitive | beantis | beantium | |||
Dative | beantī | beantibus | |||
Accusative | beantem | beāns | beantēs beantīs |
beantia | |
Ablative | beante beantī1 |
beantibus | |||
Vocative | beāns | beantēs | beantia |
1When used purely as an adjective.