beano
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
/ˈbiːnəʊ/(UK)
Definition of beano
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
-
A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party.
“You gas like a kid at a Sunday School beano.”
“For all she knew, Upjohn might have got the holiday spirit and be planning to remain burning up the boulevards indefinitely, and of course nothing gives a big beano a black eye more surely than the failure to show up of the principal speaker.”
“‘Every year,’ said Lord Galen happily, ‘I have this little beano as a farewell treat before leaving France.’”
““Everyone was having a beano, everyone was partying, the music was going, it was mint – as soon as England won we booked it.””
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noun
-
A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party.
“You gas like a kid at a Sunday School beano.”
“For all she knew, Upjohn might have got the holiday spirit and be planning to remain burning up the boulevards indefinitely, and of course nothing gives a big beano a black eye more surely than the failure to show up of the principal speaker.”
“‘Every year,’ said Lord Galen happily, ‘I have this little beano as a farewell treat before leaving France.’”
““Everyone was having a beano, everyone was partying, the music was going, it was mint – as soon as England won we booked it.””
- (figuratively)Any home-made gas or indigestion remedy.
- (alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative form of bingo (“game of chance”).
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Clipping of beanfeast + -o.
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