Meaning of old bean | Babel Free

Definitions

An old friend; an old chap or fellow.

British, dated, slang, sometimes, term-of-address

Examples

“[…] it is really an uncommon piece of exaggerative imagination which we find in the description of this old bean's elaborate costume, with its pads, straps, strings […]”

“When this here old Bean told me, you could have knocked me down with a feather.”

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