Meanings
- pluralplural of bean
- pluralplural onlyslangAn insignificant value or amount.
But social confirmation doesn’t amount to beans when it comes to knowing the truth.
2012, Bob Altemeyer, “Dogmatism and Authoritarianism”, in Don Ambrose, Robert J. Sternberg, editors, How Dogmatic Beliefs Harm Creativity and Higher-Level Thinking, →ISBN, page 622 more examples
I left home and school at 16, and worked as a janitor, a printer, a salesperson, a busboy, and hustled briefly when I was 19 to make ends meet. I live with a lover now who is a well paid academic, but I make beans as a writer.
1981 December 12, Scott Tucker, “Bring On The Cannon”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 5In a fast changing interest rate environment – particularly when rates rise fast – your verbal agreement isn’t worth beans.
1999, Ozzie Jurock, Forget about… “Location, Location, Location!”: The Definitive Real Estate Investor Guide for the New Millennium, →ISBN, page 159Synonyms: hill of beans, row of pins
- pluralplural onlyslangAn animal's pawpads.
- archaicpluralplural onlyslangMoney.
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of bean
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe testicles.
nounAn insignificant value or amount.
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Cite this entry
beans. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beans
“beans.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beans. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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