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1old bean — (informal) An affectionate form of address, usu to a man • • • Main Entry: ↑bean * * * old bean, British Slang. old fellow; old man (as a familiar form of address). * * * I Brit., informal …
2old bean — ► old bean Brit. informal, dated a friendly form of address. Main Entry: ↑bean …
3old bean — Noun. A form of address. E.g. Hello old bean, how are you today? …
4old bean Brit. — old bean Brit. informal, dated a friendly form of address. → bean …
5old bean — noun An old friend …
6old bean — form of address (Slang) …
7old bean — Term of familiar address …
8bean — ► NOUN 1) an edible seed growing in long pods on certain plants. 2) the hard seed of a coffee or cocoa plant. 3) informal a very small amount or nothing at all: there is not a bean of truth in the report. 4) informal, dated a person s head. ►… …
9bean, old — The Clasgow Herald, in 1920, equated the terms ‘old bean’ and ‘old thing’ and associated them with the English spoken by Piccadilly toffs. Sinclair Lewis seems to do something rather similar in Babbitt, published in 1922. He puts ‘old bean’… …
10bean — /bin / (say been) noun 1. the edible fruit or seed of various species of the family Fabaceae especially of the genus Phaseolus used either fresh or dried. 2. a plant producing such seeds. 3. any of various other bean like seeds or plants, as the… …