Meaning of beano | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party.
2. Any home-made gas or indigestion remedy.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“You gas like a kid at a Sunday School beano.”

“For all she knew, Upjohn might have got the holiday spirit and be planning to remain burning up the boulevards indefinitely, and of course nothing gives a big beano a black eye more surely than the failure to show up of the principal speaker.”

“‘Every year,’ said Lord Galen happily, ‘I have this little beano as a farewell treat before leaving France.’”

““Everyone was having a beano, everyone was partying, the music was going, it was mint – as soon as England won we booked it.””

CEFR level