Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bean of which the green pods are used for food. prepared before cooking by stripping off the fibrous thread along their back. Varieties of the common kidney-bean, or French bean, are so treated.
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Examples
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Antarctica was the only heavily populated continent now, containing a string-bean two hundred million people.
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So you sit in the back yard listening to the game on the radio and you can see, plain as day, some rock-head, block-hard hitter coming to bat while a string-bean, rubber-bodied pitcher winds up to send the pitch straight, one way, whistling-pop, the ump making the call before the ball even reaches the front of the plate.
To Honor Baseball's Return, Here's as Great an Opening Day Piece as You Will Find 2010
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As kids, my sister and I were so string-bean skinny that, at the old-fashioned summer camp we attended in Maine, the camp director enrolled us in the Milk and Cookies Club.
Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010
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Handsome Brian Anderson (double bass) and string-bean Benjamin Dean (fiddle), who both hail from Connecticut, contribute mightily to their madcap shenanigans.
Michael Bialas: Four-Cornered in Colorado, Festive Caravan of Thieves Steals the Show 2010
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Startled by my voice, Claire turned and ran to me, wrapping her string-bean arms about my waist.
Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010
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Handsome Brian Anderson (double bass) and string-bean Benjamin Dean (fiddle), who both hail from Connecticut, contribute mightily to their madcap shenanigans.
Michael Bialas: Four-Cornered in Colorado, Festive Caravan of Thieves Steals the Show 2010
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Also, he was awkward, too, with string-bean jeans and a way of squinting at you from below dark and intense brows.
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Startled by my voice, Claire turned and ran to me, wrapping her string-bean arms about my waist.
Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010
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He has the face of a Renaissance angel with tousled dark blond hair and a string-bean physique that is clothed in preppy attire: white shirt and tie and loafers.
Patty Cogen: Outdated, Arcane Laws Disenfranchising Voters in Seattle 2008
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Axelrod, the one-time journalist with the droopy mustache, receding hairline and slightly sad-sack, self-effacing air, offered up wry humor and an unruffled outlook, while Plouffe, a string-bean citer of polling, demographic and organizational data, rattled off his points in an emotionless monotone that would have made Joe Friday proud.
The Architects of Obama’s Campaign : Todd S. Purdum Purdum, Todd S. 2008
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