('baseball') The pitcher almost 'beaned' the first batter. [=he threw a pitch that almost hit the batter's head]
A kid in the back of the room 'beaned' me with an eraser. [=threw an eraser that hit my head]
He blames corporate 'bean counters' for causing thousands of workers to lose their jobs.
(..) Unless there's another hard working equally starved Starfleet officer around. - Me. - Getup, shut up. You aren't doing anything. You can eat, like, a bean and you're done. I'm talking about food, real food. But you're here now. So, thank you. Where is it? You are in fact a Mr. Scott... (..)2009 Star Trek
(..) of the story of the century here. I want the name of this flying whatchamacallit... ...to go with the Daily Planet like bacon and eggs... ...franks and beans, death and taxes, politics and corruption. I don't think that he'd... ...lend himself to any cheap promotion schemes. (..)1978 Superman
(..) not like street level. Higher. You know, there's like a Starbucks at every corner? Krazy- is, like, the dude that sells Starbucks his beans. Okay, so he's a distributor. Okay, so, is he... I mean, is he... In other words... What is his reputation for violence? (..)2008 TvShow: Breaking Bad Title: Cat's in the Bag... Season: 1 Episode 2