beanbag

• bean bag, bean-bag

From bean +‎ bag.

• enPR: bēnʹbăg, IPA^(key): /ˈbiːnbæɡ/

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beanbag (plural beanbags)

1. A piece of soft furniture consisting of a leather or vinyl covering stuffed with dry beans or other similar pellets.
2. A small cloth bag filled with dry beans, used as a toy or for exercising the hands.
   • 1992, Rick Altman, Sound theory, sound practice, page 40:

     Does it bounce around like a superball in a hollow cavity? Or does it rapidly lose its force, like a beanbag hitting a pillow?

3. A type of juggling ball usually made from leather or cloth stuffed with dry beans.
4. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
5. (slang) An idiot.

• (furniture): beanbag chair
• (toy): Hacky-Sack

• bean-bag baton
• bean-bag chair, beanbag chair, Sacco chair
• beanbag race

beanbag (third-person singular simple present beanbags, present participle beanbagging, simple past and past participle beanbagged)

1. (transitive) To shoot with a baton round consisting of a bag of shot.
   • 2010, Joe McKinney, Dead City, page 21:

     I've beanbagged people before, and nobody has ever just stood right back up, even from a glancing blow.