Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small bag filled with dried beans and used for throwing in games.
- noun A small folded bag filled with lead pellets, used as ammunition in a stun gun.
- noun An article, such as a chair, that is constructed as a bag filled with small pellets.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bag containing, or designed to contain, beans; specifically, a child's game played with bags full of beans. Various games are played with bags of beans, oats, sand, or other material.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a small cloth bag filled with dried beans; it is thrown from person to person in games.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A piece of soft
furniture consisting of aleather orvinyl covering stuffed with dry beans or other similarpellets . - noun A small cloth bag filled with dry beans, used as a toy or for
exercising the hands. - noun A type of
juggling ball usually made from leather or cloth stuffed with dry beans.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small cloth bag filled with dried beans; thrown in games
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I was being foolish like some old beanbag from the Alberta Frozen Tundra who thinks Montana is in Europe and that redneck Montreal is Paris.
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I was being foolish like some old beanbag from the Alberta Frozen Tundra who thinks Montana is in Europe and that redneck Montreal is Paris.
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I was being foolish like some old beanbag from the Alberta Frozen Tundra who thinks Montana is in Europe and that redneck Montreal is Paris.
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I was being foolish like some old beanbag from the Alberta Frozen Tundra who thinks Montana is in Europe and that redneck Montreal is Paris.
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I was being foolish like some old beanbag from the Alberta Frozen Tundra who thinks Montana is in Europe and that redneck Montreal is Paris.
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I was being foolish like some old beanbag from the Alberta Frozen Tundra who thinks Montana is in Europe and that redneck Montreal is Paris.
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I was being foolish like some old beanbag from the Alberta Frozen Tundra who thinks Montana is in Europe and that redneck Montreal is Paris.
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I was being foolish like some old beanbag from the Alberta Frozen Tundra who thinks Montana is in Europe and that redneck Montreal is Paris.
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I was being foolish like some old beanbag from the Alberta Frozen Tundra who thinks Montana is in Europe and that redneck Montreal is Paris.
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I was being foolish like some old beanbag from the Alberta Frozen Tundra who thinks Montana is in Europe and that redneck Montreal is Paris.
bilby commented on the word beanbag
WeirdNet doesn't seem to include the furniture meaning.
April 12, 2009