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bean

[been] / bin /
NOUN
small hard pellet
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Frank showed him the kitchen, the boot room, the larder stocked with herbs and jars of preserves and beans and a startling number of tins of anchovies.

From Literature

Sea Lion one minute, baked beans on toast the next.

From Literature

Mr. Sanders refused to speak to the author but does not seem to have stopped others from spilling their beans to him.

From The Wall Street Journal

I put frozen green beans on a plate and tell Boo they are a new kind of Popsicle.

From Literature

“For a while, it was just beans and rice.”

From The Wall Street Journal