bean

noun

1. Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
2. The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean, or garbanzo bean).
3. The edible seedpod of such a plant.

   “Green beans, also called French beans, can be pickled.”

4. (broadly)The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such as a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.
5. (broadly)An object resembling a pea or bean in shape, often made from plastic or styrofoam and used in large numbers as packing material or as stuffing for beanbags and similar items.
6. (slang)The head or brain.

   “Now, there was a perfectly sound forecast for you. Certainly a case of using the old bean. The surmise was perfectly logical.”

   “I saw her quiver and kept a wary eye on the ginger ale bottle. But even if she had raised it and brought it down on [my] bean, I couldn't have been more stunned than I was by the words that left her lips. [...] Well, as I say, it was from his fertile bean that the idea sprang.”

7. (slang)The human clitoris.

   “For one, don't stage a full-frontal assault on her bean.”

8. (endearing, often, slang)A person; especially, a baby.

   “Sparky is a good bean, even if he is a carpet-bagging bean at that.”

   “i dont want boid (whoever said that) he is mean. boid is a mean bean.”

   “"Good, because we like you. You're okay. You're a good bean." "I never thought I'd be friends with a cheerleader," I said.”

9. (British, archaic, slang)A guinea coin or sovereign.
10. (British, slang)Money.

    “I haven't got a bean.”

11. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of JavaBean.

    “The singerOne bean has values for both the name and age properties, so it passes through the init() method with absolutely no changes.”

12. (slang)Any form of tablet, especially benzedrine (benny).

    “Once the bean kicked in I started wilding.”

13. (colloquial, in-plural)A toe bean.

verb

1. To hit with a projectile, especially a deliberately aimed blow to the head.

   “The pitcher beaned the batter, rather than letting him hit another home run.”

   “Though I shall have to exercise an iron self-restraint to keep me from beaning that pie-faced little hornswoggler Mrs Bertram Wooster, nee Wickham, with the shaker. [...] dudgeon might easily lead her to reach for the ginger ale bottle and bean me with it.”

name

1. A surname.
2. A village and civil parish in Dartford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5872).