beans
noun/biːnz/
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Slang Pills; drugs in pill form.
- popping beans
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Slang, In the negative An insignificant value or amount.
- I left home and school at 16, and worked as a janitor, a printer, a salesperson, a busboy, and hustled briefly when I was 19 to make ends meet. I live with a lover now who is a well paid academic, but I make beans as a writer.1981 December 12, Scott Tucker, “Bring On The Cannon”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 5:
- In a fast changing interest rate environment – particularly when rates rise fast – your verbal agreement isn’t worth beans.1999, Ozzie Jurock, Forget about… “Location, Location, Location!”: The Definitive Real Estate Investor Guide for the New Millennium, →ISBN, page 159:
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- But social confirmation doesn’t amount to beans when it comes to knowing the truth.2012, Bob Altemeyer, “Dogmatism and Authoritarianism”, in Don Ambrose, Robert J. Sternberg, editors, How Dogmatic Beliefs Harm Creativity and Higher-Level Thinking, →ISBN, page 62:
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Slang An animal's pawpads.
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Internet The hypodermis.
- He told me he reached beans. I hope he’ll be okay.