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語源

From bean +‎ bag.

発音

• enPR: bēnʹbăg, IPA: /ˈbiːnbæɡ/

名詞

beanbag (plural beanbags)

1. A small cloth bag filled with drybeans, used as a toy or for exercising the hands.

   Synonym: hacky sack

   • 1992, Rick Altman, Sound theory, sound practice, page 40:

     Does it bounce around like a superball in a hollow cavity? Or does it rapidly lose its force, like a beanbag hitting a pillow?

2. A type of juggling ball usually made from leather or cloth stuffed with dry beans.
3. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
4. (slang, derogatory) An idiot.
5. (furniture) Ellipsis of beanbag chair.

派生語

動詞

beanbag (third-person singular simple present beanbags, present participle beanbagging, simple past and past participle beanbagged)

1. (transitive) To shoot with a baton round consisting of a bag of shot.
   • 2010, Joe McKinney, Dead City, page 21:

     I've beanbagged people before, and nobody has ever just stood right back up, even from a glancing blow.

Further reading

• beanbag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

名詞

bean bag (plural bean bags)

1. Alternative form of beanbag