beano

plural beanos

1. A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party.

   You gas like a kid at a Sunday School beano.

   1912, Katherine Mansfield, “The Woman at the Store”, in Selected Short Stories

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   For all she knew, Upjohn might have got the holiday spirit and be planning to remain burning up the boulevards indefinitely, and of course nothing gives a big beano a black eye more surely than the failure to show up of the principal speaker.

   1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC

   ‘Every year,’ said Lord Galen happily, ‘I have this little beano as a farewell treat before leaving France.’

   1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 419

   “Everyone was having a beano, everyone was partying, the music was going, it was mint – as soon as England won we booked it.”

   2024 July 14, Rachel Hall, quoting Ashley Cullen, “‘I’ve never seen owt like it’: England fans in Benidorm in high spirits before Euro final”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

2. figurativelyAny home-made gas or indigestion remedy.

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of bingo (“game of chance”).