beaner

== English == === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ˈbinɚ/ Rhymes: -iːnə(ɹ) === Etymology 1 === 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. ==== Noun ==== beaner (plural beaners) (US, slang, ethnic slur, offensive) A Mexican. (US, slang, ethnic slur, offensive, by extension) Any Hispanic or Latino person. Synonym: spic (offensive) (sometimes offensive, slang) A casual term of address, especially used by Mexican Americans. (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. ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== ==== References ==== John Sutherland (31 July 2000), “You are what you eat ... arguably”, in The Guardian‎[2] === Etymology 2 === From bean +‎ -er; see bean (“(slang) head”). ==== Noun ==== beaner (plural beaners) (baseball) A pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter. (by extension, informal) Head. (US, slang, dated) A superior or admirable person; something excellent. ===== Usage notes ===== This sense of a superior or admirable person, from U.S. baseball slang in the 1940s and 1950s, is now almost completely superseded. ===== Synonyms ===== (baseball): beanball ===== See also ===== (cricket): beamer ===== References ===== 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 === Anagrams === Berean, bearen