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to bean

to bean

8 9.7
To hit someone on the head with a hard object
  • verb
  • /biːn/
  • Slang
translation icon : dar en la cabeza (coloquial)
  • You know, first I had to bean him in the head with this big rock.
  • get beaned
  • beaned in the head
  • almost beaned

Examples

  • How did I know you were gonna bean him with a hard ball?

  • 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.

  • Have you tried beaning him with a rolling pin?

  • 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.

  • She threw a clock radio at his head, so I beaned her with a mango.

  • 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.

  • He decided to bean the player with the baseball to get him out.

  • The pitcher was careful not to bean the batter during the game.

Synonyms

to hit
vsto bean
1.0

To strike someone or something with force

specifies aiming at the head with a thrown hard object rather than any strike
to slap
vsto bean
492 1.0

Hit quickly with the flat part of the hand

uses a hard thrown object aimed at the head rather than a quick hand strike
to bashing
vsto bean
  • NSFW
57 3.2

To hit something or someone hard and repeatedly

refers to one targeted head hit by a flying hard object not repeated blows
to clobber
vsto bean
  • NSFW
19 7.7

To hit someone or something very hard many times

limits action to a single aimed head strike with a hard thrown object
to headbutt
vsto bean
4 6.1

To hit someone or something hard with your head

hits the head using an external hard object rather than the striker's head
to bop
vsto bean
  • Informal
1 6.1

To hit someone quickly in a light, playful way

is more specific involving a hard thrown object aimed at the head
to boff
vsto bean
  • NSFW
1 9.0

To hit someone or something hard, often by accident

focuses on intentional aiming at the head with a fast moving object
to smash the head
vsto bean
  • Offensive
8.8

Hit a person's head very hard and cause serious injury

targets the head using a thrown hard object rather than general violence

Compounds

28 1.0

A long green pod you cook and eat as a side

15 1.0

A small bean-shaped candy with a soft sweet center and a hard sugar shell

14 1.3

A small shiny black bean used in cooking

12 1.0

A small seed from a tree that people roast and grind to make coffee

bean counter
  • Offensive
9 7.4

A person who pays too much attention to small money details and misses the big picture

9 2.5

A flat pale green or white bean that people cook and eat

7 2.7

A long green bean with a tough string along its pod you remove before eating

6 2.3

A long narrow pod that contains tiny black seeds people use to flavor food

5 3.1

A large flat seed from the broad bean plant that people cook and eat

5 1.1

A creamy spread of cooked beans and spices for eating with chips

4 2.3

A dried seed from the cacao tree used to make chocolate

4 1.1

A small white seed that people cook and eat

4 1.8

A young thin shoot from a bean eaten as a vegetable

3 2.0

A large red seed shaped like a kidney that people cook and eat or the plant that grows it

3 1.4

A brown bean with spots often dried and used in Mexican cooking

2 3.4

A small green bean from Asia that people cook or grow into sprouts

1 2.8

A soft white food made from soy milk that people use like meat in Asian cooking

green bean
  • Indian
1 1.0

A small round seed used in Asian cooking, often dried or soaked

1 1.5

A small white dried bean used in soups and baked beans

1 2.0

A plant that makes large flat beans people cook and eat

1 7.3

A seed that moves because a baby moth lives inside it

1 2.9

The dried seed of the tree that makes cocoa and chocolate

1 7.4

A poisonous seed from a plant that people turn into oil

1 3.0

A young green bean eaten before it dries or hardens

1 2.7

A tender green bean you eat young that breaks easily and has no strings

string bean
  • Slang
1 6.4

A very tall thin person that people call as a joke

1 1.4

A plant that produces beans you can eat

1 6.9

A person who eats mostly plants and simple foods without meat

1 3.3

A low-growing bean plant that forms a compact shape and does not need support

1 2.1

A long thin green vegetable that people eat cooked or raw

A seed from a Mexican shrub that jumps when a baby moth moves inside

1 3.7

A climbing plant with long green pods and red flowers grown for food

1 3.8

A climbing bean plant that wraps around supports like poles or trellises

1 3.1

A yellow bean with edible pods eaten as a vegetable

9.1

A climbing plant with purple flowers and long hairy pods used to improve soil and feed animals

Benghal bean
  • Archaic
9.1

A woody climbing plant with purple flowers and hairy pods that farmers grow to feed animals and improve soil

bean mouth
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who talks too much and tells other people's secrets

A flat crispy tortilla with mashed beans and toppings like cheese and lettuce

Bean Town
  • Informal
7.5

A nickname for Boston, the capital of Massachusetts

6.6

A tree that has long seed pods that look like beans and showy flowers

A shrub with leaves in three parts, yellow flowers, and curving seed pods that smells bad when crushed

A small beetle whose young live in and eat beans and cause damage

bean-caper family
  • Specialized
9.9

A group of small trees, shrubs, and herbs that grow in hot, dry, salty places and are sometimes poisonous

bean aphid
  • Specialized
7.2

A small black insect that eats the sap of beans and other crops

bean beetle
  • Specialized
7.4

A small beetle that eats bean leaves and damages crops

bean blight
  • Specialized
6.8

A plant disease that makes bean leaves spot, wilt, or die

A small bush whose pickled flower buds are used in cooking

A garden plant grown for its large flat beans that people or animals eat

2.2

An upright plant grown for its large flat edible seeds and food for animals

2.4

A large flat edible seed eaten as a vegetable and often called a fava bean

A bush that grows small flat beans you can eat, often served as a vegetable

9.9

A dark brown seed from a West African plant that is poisonous and used in traditional medicine and rituals

A tropical African climbing plant that makes beans used in medicine and once used as a poison

A long dark brown pod from a carob tree with a sweet soft inside used like chocolate

An evergreen tree that grows in Mediterranean countries and makes sweet pods eaten like chocolate

A large tropical shrub with big hand-shaped leaves and spiny seed pods that give seeds used to make castor oil

A small flat green bean like a lima bean used for food

cluster bean
  • Indian
7.8

A plant grown in dry places for edible pods and seeds used to make guar gum

A climbing or bushy vegetable that produces edible beans

A plant that grows beans people cook and eat

9.5

A shrub or small tree with divided leaves, blue flower spikes and red seeds, some poisonous to farm animals

A small tree with bright red flowers and red seeds with black spots

A tropical bean plant with red flowers that grows black beans with white spots you can eat

A seed from plants like peas or lentils that you can eat

Egyptian bean
  • Indian
8.4

A climbing plant with purple flowers and dark red pods that have edible seeds and are used as a vegetable

3.0

A large flat bean that people cook and eat, also called fava

A bean plant with long pods that people cook and eat

A small reddish-brown bean used in Chinese and Japanese cooking, often in sweet dishes

A small red-brown bean from East Asia often used in Japanese and Chinese sweets and flour

algarroba bean
  • Specialized
9.9

A long pod with sweet pulp and small beans people and animals eat, often used like chocolate

A long thin bean with pods you can eat, often used in Asian cooking

4.2

A plant from Europe that produces large flat seeds eaten by people and fed to animals

5.6

A tall plant grown for large flat seeds eaten by people and fed to animals

How Hard

to bash
  • NSFW
73 2.9
to bean
  • Slang
8 9.7
to smack
164 3.5
to hit
1.0
to bop
  • Informal
1 6.1
tap
66 1.0

Surface Forms

bean infinitive
beating present participle
beans third person singular
beaned past
beaned past participle

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).