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to bean

to bean

8 9.7
To hit someone on the head with a hard object
  • verb
  • /biːn/
  • Slang
: 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
472 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 clobber
vsto bean
  • NSFW
32 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 bop
vsto bean
  • Informal
11 6.1

To hit someone quickly in a light, playful way

is more specific involving a hard thrown object aimed at the head
to headbutt
vsto bean
5 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 bashing
vsto bean
  • NSFW
5 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 smash the head
vsto bean
  • Offensive
4 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
to boff
vsto bean
  • NSFW
2 9.0

To hit someone or something hard, often by accident

focuses on intentional aiming at the head with a fast moving object

Compounds

39 1.0

A long green pod you cook and eat as a side

22 1.0

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

16 1.0

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

14 2.5

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

13 1.3

A small shiny black bean used in cooking

bean counter
  • Offensive
13 7.4

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

11 2.7

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

7 2.3

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

7 1.1

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

5 3.1

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

5 1.4

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

5 1.8

A young thin shoot from a bean eaten as a vegetable

4 2.3

A dried seed from the cacao tree used to make chocolate

4 2.4

A plant with seeds used to make food, oil, and animal feed

4 2.0

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

3 2.8

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

2 3.4

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

string bean
  • Slang
2 6.4

A very tall thin person that people call as a joke

1 7.3

A seed that moves because a baby moth lives inside it

1 7.4

A poisonous seed from a plant that people turn into oil

1 2.1

A long thin green vegetable that people eat cooked or raw

1 1.5

A small white dried bean used in soups and baked beans

1 3.0

A young green bean eaten before it dries or hardens

1 2.0

A plant that makes large flat beans people cook and eat

1 2.7

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

1 6.9

A person who eats mostly plants and simple foods without meat

1 3.8

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

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

1 2.9

The dried seed of the tree that makes cocoa and chocolate

1 3.7

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

1 5.2

A bean you take from its pod before cooking, usually soft and not fully ripe

1 3.1

A yellow bean with edible pods eaten as a vegetable

1 1.1

A small white seed that people cook and eat

1 1.4

A plant that produces beans you can eat

1 2.5

A small white seed that is dried and cooked to eat

1 2.2

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

1 3.3

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

1 5.6

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

human bean
  • Baby Talk
1 9.5

A playful name adults use for children

mash bean
  • Indian
1 5.4

A small green bean from the mung plant that people eat

bean beetle
  • Specialized
1 7.4

A small beetle that eats bean leaves and damages crops

1 5.6

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

1 8.7

An edible root that looks like a nut and was an important food for some Native American people

Bean Town
  • Informal
1 7.5

A nickname for Boston, the capital of Massachusetts

1 6.6

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

A small insect that eats the leaves of bean plants and often damages bean crops

tonka bean
  • Specialized
1 9.7

A fragrant black seed from a South American tree that gives perfumes and food a warm, sweet smell

hyacinth bean
  • Indian
1 7.6

A climbing plant with purple flowers and pods that hold edible seeds

1 5.8

A bean plant grown for the seeds that people eat, picked when ripe but not dry

1 1.1

A plant that grows beans people cook and eat

A climbing plant with red flowers and long edible pods

1 1.6

A long thin vegetable with yellow pods that you eat

1 7.9

A climbing plant grown for its large edible roots eaten raw or cooked

1 7.2

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

1 2.4

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

winged bean
  • Indian
1 6.9

A tropical climbing plant with edible pods that have four raised edges and thick edible roots

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

1 9.9

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

1 9.3

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

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

1 2.9

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

A green bean with long flat pods grown for its good taste

wonder bean
  • Specialized
1 8.6

A bushy tropical plant grown for animal feed with long pods of white seeds

1 5.0

A small black bean often dried and used in cooking

1 4.2

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

A long green bean with very long pods used as a vegetable

screw bean
  • Specialized
1 9.8

A dry-land shrub or small tree with spiral seed pods from the US Southwest and Mexico

1 7.5

A North American vine with sweet-smelling flowers and edible roots used for food

1 8.5

A climbing plant from the southwestern United States and Mexico that makes small edible beans

1 4.7

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

A plant that grows pods with large flat beans people eat

1 7.7

A long pod from the carob tree with sweet pulp used like chocolate and as animal feed

mescal bean
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A shrub or small tree with blue flowers and red seeds that are poisonous to people and animals

How Hard

to bash
  • NSFW
97 2.9
to bean
  • Slang
8 9.7
to smack
183 3.5
to hit
∞ 1.0
to bop
  • Informal
11 6.1
tap
57 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).