beano
1 Americannoun
noun
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
Example Sentences
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Playing for Trinidad & Tobago against Jamaica in the final of the 2008 Stanford 20/20 beano, Mohammed produced a performance he had been working towards all his life.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2012
Meanwhile for Lobanovsky, Kiev's Euro 2012 football beano is in its quiet way a hometown coronation, the silent spectre flickering just out of sight, a ghost at his own feast.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2012
What about the moaners, I ask Jones; all those in Newport who say this is a corporate beano that has nothing to do with them?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2010
So the churches and fire stations spell it beano, or bungo, or lotto, and go right on playing.
From Time Magazine Archive
My name is stheno, he’d thought it said beano.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
I usually get out of them myself; official beanos bore me.
From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
Next twenty Sundays for four hundred and seventy-five beanos, cash in advance.
From Rope by Hall, Holworthy
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