beans

English

Beans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːnz/

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• Rhymes: -iːnz

Noun

beans

1. plural of bean

Noun

beans pl (plural only)

1. (slang, urban) Pills; drugs in pill form.
2. (slang, vulgar) Testes.
3. (slang, chiefly in the negative) An insignificant value or amount.

   Synonyms: hill of beans, row of pins; see also Thesaurus:nothing

   • 1999, Ozzie Jurock, Forget about… “Location, Location, Location!”: The Definitive Real Estate Investor Guide for the New Millennium, →ISBN, page 159:

     In a fast changing interest rate environment – particularly when rates rise fast – your verbal agreement isn’t worth beans.

   • 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.

4. (slang, archaic) Money.

Verb

beans

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bean

References

• (money): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• BANES, Banes, Benas, banes, basen, besan, nabes, nesba

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Latin

Etymology

Present participle of beō.

Participle

beāns (genitive beantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. blessing, gladdening, enriching

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number	Singular			Plural
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.