beano

noun
/ˈbiːnəʊ/UK

Etymology

Clipping of beanfeast + -o.

Definitions

  1. A beanfeast

    A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party.

    • You gas like a kid at a Sunday School beano.
    • ‘Every year,’ said Lord Galen happily, ‘I have this little beano as a farewell treat before leaving France.’
  2. Any home-made gas or indigestion remedy.

  3. Alternative form of bingo (“game of chance”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beano. 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