baked bean

plural baked beans

1. A single bean in a portion of baked beans.
2. attributivebaked beans

   Catweazle paused, about to drink from an old baked-bean tin while Touchwood looked on beadily.

   1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 49

3. CockneyslangThe queen.

   The Baked Bean Although I am patriotic, I don't consider myself a Royalist per se, but I challenge even the most hardened anti-monarchist to meet the Queen and not be slightly awed.

   2019, Cat Williams, From Prison to Palace

   1 more example

   'Nah, listen to me, me old china,' he said, wrapping a kindly paw around my shoulder. 'I don't know the old baked bean. […] Yep, I don't know the baked bean, but I do know someone who's friends with her corgis and they're right little lords and ladies, so I don't reckon they'd knock around with an old fella like me.'

   2015, John Tovey, A Puppy Called Dez