Meaning of baked bean | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A single bean in a portion of baked beans.
2. baked beans
   attributive
3. The queen.
   Cockney, slang

Examples

“Catweazle paused, about to drink from an old baked-bean tin while Touchwood looked on beadily.”

“'Nah, listen to me, me old china,' he said, wrapping a kindly paw around my shoulder. 'I don't know the old baked bean. […] Yep, I don't know the baked bean, but I do know someone who's friends with her corgis and they're right little lords and ladies, so I don't reckon they'd knock around with an old fella like me.'”

“The Baked Bean Although I am patriotic, I don't consider myself a Royalist per se, but I challenge even the most hardened anti-monarchist to meet the Queen and not be slightly awed.”

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