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 something or someone hard and repeatedly
To hit someone or something very hard many times
To hit someone or something hard with your head
To hit someone quickly in a light, playful way
To hit someone or something hard, often by accident
Hit a person's head very hard and cause serious injury
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
- US
A climbing plant with purple flowers and long hairy pods used to improve soil and feed animals
- Archaic
A woody climbing plant with purple flowers and hairy pods that farmers grow to feed animals and improve soil
A shrub with leaves in three parts, yellow flowers, and curving seed pods that smells bad when crushed
- Specialized
A group of small trees, shrubs, and herbs that grow in hot, dry, salty places and are sometimes poisonous
A bush that grows small flat beans you can eat, often served as a vegetable
- UK
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
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
- US
A shrub or small tree with divided leaves, blue flower spikes and red seeds, some poisonous to farm animals
A tropical bean plant with red flowers that grows black beans with white spots you can eat
- Indian
A climbing plant with purple flowers and dark red pods that have edible seeds and are used as a vegetable
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
- Specialized
A long pod with sweet pulp and small beans people and animals eat, often used like chocolate
A plant from Europe that produces large flat seeds eaten by people and fed to animals
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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).