beaner

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbinɚ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -iːnə(ɹ)

From bean +‎ -er. Literally "a person who eats beans", since beans are a staple of Mexican cuisine, and eaten in Boston as Boston baked beans.

beaner (plural beaners)

1. (US, slang, ethnic slur, offensive) A Mexican.
   • 1999, Gregory Alan Norton, There Ain't no Justice, Just Us, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 32:

     You're gonna work out good, Dave. I was afraid they were gonna hire another nigger or a beaner.

   • 2003, Roy Yelverton, “chapter 2”, in Shovelhead Red – The Drifter's Way‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 August 2007:

     Hey bro I'm a beaner, we ain't good at math. Jeez, dawn 'ju watch TV?

   • 2005, Carlos Mencia, Mind of Mencia:

     I'm a beaner, and I'm telling you white people, that's a bullshit number right off the bat!

2. (US, slang, ethnic slur, offensive, by extension) Any Hispanic or Latino person.

   Synonym: spic (offensive)

3. (sometimes offensive, slang) A casual term of address, especially used by Mexican Americans.
4. (US, slang) A Bostonian; a person from Boston, Massachusetts.

   Synonym: bean-eater

   • 1994, Charles H. Day, ‎William Lawrence Slout, Ink from a Circus Press Agent (page 64)

     In Boston the beaners found out what a good show we had when we jumped to Albany. But all the while the Boston press praised and they heeded not until it was too late and then they added their regrets to ours.

• John Sutherland (31 July 2000), “You are what you eat ... arguably”, in The Guardian‎^[2]

From bean +‎ -er; see bean (“(slang) head”).

beaner (plural beaners)

1. (baseball) A pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter.
2. (by extension, informal) Head.
   • 2001 October 2, William, “Capturing Group Therapy Hours?”, in microsoft.public.access.forms‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Any ideas on how I could solve this problem? This seems to be beyond what my beaner can solve right now....I hope all this work wasn't for nothing!

   • 2004 April 30, Active8 [username], “Re: Smith Chart question”, in sci.electronics.design‎^[4] (Usenet):

     I know what picture yer referring to, but I didn't have a problem with that because the fundamentals of reactance have been in my beaner since I was a teen.

   • 2011, Mike Griffin, Tales of the Lost Flamingo, AuthorHouse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 159:

     Before Chester could compose himself, the Bombshell leaned over and planted a ruby red smackaroo right on top of his bald spot. Chester Cranepool had had a few things hit him on top of his head before, but nothing that felt that good. Looking like a Franciscan monk with a bullseye on his beaner, Chester simply said, “Bless you, my child.”

3. (US, slang, dated) A superior or admirable person; something excellent.
   • 1942, Forrest Edwin Long, Philip Westcot Lawrence Cox, The Clearing House, page 527:

     Gee, that would be a beaner of a sign for education

   • 1949, Martha Ostenso, The Sunset Tree, Dodd, Mead, page 106:

     Pride, indeed, Esther thought — that was a beaner! There was more purse than pride in Mayme's repentant heart

• This sense of a superior or admirable person, from U.S. baseball slang in the 1940s and 1950s, is now almost completely superseded.

• (baseball): beanball

• (cricket): beamer

• Lester V. Berrey and Melvín van den Bark (1953), American Thesaurus of Slang: A Complete Reference Book of Colloquial Speech, Crowell, page 27,354,375

• Berean, bearen