beanbag

[been-bag]

noun

1. a small cloth bag filled with dried beans, as for tossing in various children's games.

2. any such game.

3. any similar bag used as a cushion or support, as the base for an ashtray, etc.

4. Also called beanbag chair. a large, soft, frameless chair resembling a beanbag, typically a clothlike plastic shell, filled with plastic chips, that molds itself readily to the contours of the occupant.

beanbag

/ ˈbiːnˌbæɡ /

noun

1. a small cloth bag filled with dried beans and thrown in games

2. Also called: sag bag. a very large cushion loosely filled with foam rubber or polystyrene granules so that it moulds into a comfortable shape: used as an informal low seat

Word History and Origins

Origin of beanbag¹

First recorded in 1870–75; bean + bag

Example Sentences

The day the BBC visited, around a dozen visitors - men and women, young and old - were sitting on benches or burrowed into beanbags, watching a film together.

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Several of the cases Smith flagged were cited in lawsuits brought by people injured by police, including an Associated Press photographer who was struck with a beanbag shotgun round.

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His movie became the forerunner of “Silicon Valley,” which captured the tech industry’s evolution away from cubicle austerity into open floor plans, beanbag furniture and the idea of work becoming a second home.

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Eventually, deputies fired beanbag rounds in an effort to subdue Ordaz.

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Her killer, Kate Roughley, was jailed for 14 years for manslaughter following a trial, in which a jury heard that she had swaddled the child tightly and strapped her face down to a beanbag.

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