string bean

string bean

noun
1.
any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
2.
the pod itself.
3.
Informal. a tall, thin person.

Origin:
1750–60, Americanism
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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string bean
 
n
1.  green bean See also wax bean any of several bean plants, such as the scarlet runner, cultivated for their edible unripe pods
2.  informal a tall thin person

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