Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A form of bingo, especially one using beans as markers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the correponding numbers on their cards.
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- noun A
beanfeast ; any noisycelebration , aparty . - noun figuratively Any home-made
gas orindigestion remedy.
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- noun a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Originally called beano, the game was first introduced in the United States by Edwin Lowe, who had seen the game played during a traveling carnival in 1929.
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Albert Hall, a new dress of silver and paste diamonds, a fat supper, and that jolly feeling of believing that a real "beano" is justified because, after all, _we_ won the war, didn't we?
Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Richard King 1913
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The 'beano' comes very near to this land -- so near that across its marches you may hear the sackbut and shawm from the breaks.
In Homespun 1891
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"beano"; while the lonely -- well, one likes to imagine that there are no lonely ones at Christmas-time; or, if there are -- that somebody has asked them out, or they have toothache and so wouldn't appreciate even the society of jolly seraphims.
Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Richard King 1913
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"beano" because participants marked cardboard cards with beans.
Homepage 2010
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A recent sell-out party at London's 3,000-capacity Matter shows that this hardy survivor is still fighting fit and anything but flabby, so their Easter beano tonight on Brighton seafront looks the ideal place to enjoy this April's seemingly endless holiday season.
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He may have been booted off BBC Radio 1 last year in a Logan's Run-style cull of the station's ageing jocks, but the lineup for Gilles Peterson's annual awards beano proves that the 47-year-old still has his finger on, or at least very near, the pulse.
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Born in nearby Worthing, Jon has chosen Hove's cosy H Bar for his latest beano, and there's an interesting headliner.
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Obamas top economic gasbags just ate another can of beans, and forgot to take their beano.
Half of the country wants out of Social Security. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Obamas top economic gasbags just ate another can of beans, and forgot to take their beano.
Half of the country wants out of Social Security. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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