to bean
- verb
- /biːn/
- Slang
- You know, first I had to bean him in the head with this big rock.
- get beaned
- beaned in the head
- almost beaned
Examples
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How did I know you were gonna bean him with a hard ball?
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Unless you've been living under a rock this week, the feel-good story of the week is the story of former Cubs prospect Adam Greenberg, who in his first career plate appearance in 2005, was beaned in the head with the very first pitch he saw.
Blog text (26) -
Yeah, after you beaned Marcus with the ball.
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Have you tried beaning him with a rolling pin?
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Some kids climbed to the higher decks and tried to bean them with apples.
Fiction book (2001) -
So what we are gonna do is we're gonna try to kill the bad guys... by beaning them in the head with these dirt clods.
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She threw a clock radio at his head, so I beaned her with a mango.
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Now, I hate the son of a bitch 'cause he used to pitch for the Rockets, which was two towns over, and he beaned me in the skull with a fastball senior year.
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He decided to bean the player with the baseball to get him out.
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The pitcher was careful not to bean the batter during the game.
Synonyms
To strike someone or something with force
Hit quickly with the flat part of the hand
To hit someone or something very hard many times
To hit someone quickly in a light, playful way
To hit someone or something hard with your head
To hit something or someone hard and repeatedly
Hit a person's head very hard and cause serious injury
To hit someone or something hard, often by accident
Compounds
- Offensive
A person who pays too much attention to small money details and misses the big picture
A large red seed shaped like a kidney that people cook and eat or the plant that grows it
A small red-brown bean from East Asia often used in Japanese and Chinese sweets and flour
- US
An edible root that looks like a nut and was an important food for some Native American people
A small insect that eats the leaves of bean plants and often damages bean crops
- Specialized
A fragrant black seed from a South American tree that gives perfumes and food a warm, sweet smell
A small reddish-brown bean used in Chinese and Japanese cooking, often in sweet dishes
- Indian
A tropical climbing plant with edible pods that have four raised edges and thick edible roots
- UK
A dark brown seed from a West African plant that is poisonous and used in traditional medicine and rituals
A large tropical shrub with big hand-shaped leaves and spiny seed pods that give seeds used to make castor oil
- Specialized
A bushy tropical plant grown for animal feed with long pods of white seeds
A plant from Europe that produces large flat seeds eaten by people and fed to animals
- Specialized
A dry-land shrub or small tree with spiral seed pods from the US Southwest and Mexico
- US
A climbing plant from the southwestern United States and Mexico that makes small edible beans
A long pod from the carob tree with sweet pulp used like chocolate and as animal feed
- Specialized
A shrub or small tree with blue flowers and red seeds that are poisonous to people and animals
How Hard
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bean as a verb (to hit someone on the head) comes from the slang bean meaning 'head', so to 'bean' someone is to strike their 'bean' (head).