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Definition of Beano
1. Noun. A game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
Definition of Beano
1. Noun. A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party. ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) Any home-made gas or indigestion remedy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beano
1. a form of bingo [n BEANOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beano
Literary usage of Beano
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1874)
"The year witnessed the completion of the Union Railroad, a work of great magnitude,
and destined to have an important beano? upon the commercial status of ..."
2. Tillers of the Sand, Being a Fitful Record of the Rosebery Administration by Owen Seaman (1895)
"A NATIONAL LIBERAL 'beano' THERE was a noise of revelry by night, And England's
Radicals had gathered there In all their practically Peerless might ..."
3. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"We shall 'ave a fair beano then!"—Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday, Aug. ... This mysterious
term beano may be a wilful corruption of beaner, or -bean, ..."
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