beano
1 Americannoun
noun
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beanos
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of beano1
1930–35; blend of bean and keno
Origin of beano2
First recorded in 1885–90; bean(feast) + -o
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Rhod Gilbert was visibly distressed as he relived the night he found himself talking to the back of Sir Alex Ferguson's head at a footballers' beano in Mayfair.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2013
Similarly, any likeness between this bank holiday beano and your average club night will be purely by accident, rather than by design.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2010
Lumb is not the first Englishman to use cricket's great spangled billionaire's beano as a springboard to international success.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2010
After Michigan's Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald vetoed a bill legalizing beano games, the Grand Rapids prosecutor decided to allow charity games, stamp out commercial ones.
From Time Magazine Archive
My name is stheno, he’d thought it said beano.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
Next twenty Sundays for four hundred and seventy-five beanos, cash in advance.
From Rope by Holworthy Hall
I usually get out of them myself; official beanos bore me.
From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Dame Rose Macaulay
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