Contextualizebeta

beanbag

noun
/ˈbiːnbæɡ/

Etymology

From bean + bag.

  1. derived from baggi
  2. inherited from bagge
  3. compounded as beanbag — “bean + bag”

Definitions

  1. A piece of soft furniture consisting of a leather or vinyl covering stuffed with dry…

    A piece of soft furniture consisting of a leather or vinyl covering stuffed with dry beans or other similar pellets.

  2. A small cloth bag filled with dry beans, used as a toy or for exercising the hands.

    • Does it bounce around like a superball in a hollow cavity? Or does it rapidly lose its force, like a beanbag hitting a pillow?

  3. A type of juggling ball usually made from leather or cloth stuffed with dry beans.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A testicle.

    2. An idiot.

    3. To shoot with a baton round consisting of a bag of shot.

      • I've beanbagged people before, and nobody has ever just stood right back up, even from a glancing blow.

The neighborhood

Derived

bean-bag baton, bean-bag chair, beanbag chair, Sacco chair, beanbag race

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beanbag. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA