string bean
Americannoun
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any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
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the pod itself.
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Informal. a tall, thin person.
noun
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any of several bean plants, such as the scarlet runner, cultivated for their edible unripe pods See also green bean wax bean
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informal a tall thin person
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Etymology
Origin of string bean
An Americanism dating back to 1750–60
Example Sentences
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Outside in the street, a row of colorful shops offers refreshments to tourists visiting a local surfing beach.
From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026
Professional Hawaii surfer Sheldon Paishon was getting ready to surf Thursday morning at Makaha, a world-famous surfing beach on Oahu’s west side.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2023
Allie Reynolds’s “The Swell” takes place at a quite different vacation spot: a coveted surfing beach in an Australian national park.
From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2022
The University of California San Diego sits directly atop Black’s Beach, a surfing beach in La Jolla and one of the best in the nation.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2022
Watch surfers Italo Ferreira and Hiroto Ohhara ride big waves as a tropical storm hit the Tsurigasaki surfing beach during the Tokyo Olympics.
From BBC • Jul. 26, 2021
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