Meaning

7 senses

  1. (US, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur)A Mexican.

  2. (US, broadly, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur)Any Hispanic or Latino person.

  3. (offensive, slang, sometimes)A casual term of address, especially used by Mexican Americans.

  4. (US, slang)A Bostonian; a person from Boston, Massachusetts.

  5. A pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter.

    a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head

  6. (broadly, informal)Head.

  7. (US, dated, slang)A superior or admirable person; something excellent.

Translations

2 languages

Origin

From bean + -er. Literally "a person who eats beans", since beans are a staple of Mexican

From bean + -er. Literally "a person who eats beans", since beans are a staple of Mexican cuisine, and eaten in Boston as Boston baked beans.

From bean + -er; see bean (“(slang) head”).

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Forms

plural: beaners
Singularbeaner
Pluralbeaners

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
spicbean-eaterbeanball
Close in meaning
  • a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head:beanball

Word family

3 related words
Relatedbean-eaterbeamerbean

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
beamB2beamerbeanA1beaniebearA1
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