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Beaner vs Beamer - What's the difference?

beaner | beamer |

As nouns the difference between beaner and beamer

is that beaner is a Mexican while beamer is a ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but passes the batsman at head height.

beaner

English

Etymology 1

From . Literally "a person who eats refried beans".

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US, racial slur, offensive) A Mexican.
  • *
  • * {{quote-book citation
    • , passage=Hey bro I'm a beaner , we ain't good at math. Jeez, dawn 'ju watch TV?}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2005, title=
    • , passage=I'm a beaner , and I'm telling you white people, that's a bullshit number right off the bat!}}

    References

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    Etymology 2

    Unknown.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (baseball) A pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter.
  • (by extension, informal) Head.
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    • William, title=Capturing Group Therapy Hours? citation
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    • Active8 [username], title=Re: Smith Chart question beaner since I was a teen.}}'>citation
  • * 2011 , Mike Griffin, Tales of the Lost Flamingo , AuthorHouse (2011), ISBN 9781456760533, page 159:
    • Before Chester could compose himself, the Bombshell leaned over and planted a ruby red smackaroo right on top of his bald spot. Chester Cranepool had had a few things hit him on top of his head before, but nothing that felt that good. Looking like a Franciscan monk with a bullseye on his beaner , Chester simply said, “Bless you, my child.”
  • (US, slang, dated) A superior or admirable person; something excellent.
  • *
  • * {{quote-book, title=The Sunset Tree, author=Martha Ostenso, pages=106, date=1949, publisher=Dodd, Mead
    • , passage=Pride, indeed, Esther thought — that was a beaner ! There was more purse than pride in Mayme's repentant heart}}
    Usage notes
    This sense of a superior or admirable person, from U.S. baseball slang in the 1940s and 1950s, is now almost completely superseded.
    References
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    beamer

    English

    (wikipedia beamer)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cricket) A ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but passes the batsman at head height.
  • (informal, jargon, chiefly, Europe) A device that can project an image through a lens onto a screen with light from a DVD player, television or video recorder.
  • * 1998 , Wilhelm Grießhaber, “Multimedia in Computer-Assisted Language Learning”, in Aspects of Modern Language Teaching in Europe , Routledge, ISBN 0415172845, page 52:
    • Furthermore, the teacher’s computer should be equipped with an LCD-panel with overhead projector or beamer .
  • * {{quote-book, 2004, John Rodney Turner, Managing Web Projects citation
    • , passage=The plan can be projected on to a white board,
  • * 2005 , S. Borkowski et al., “Spatial Control of Interactive Surfaces”, in Engineering Human Computer Interaction And Interactive Systems , Springer, ISBN 3540260978, page 234:
    • The orientation of a surface with respect to the beamer is used to calculate a pre-warp that is applied to the projected image.
  • (slang) A BMW.

    • Synonyms

    * (BMW) beemer, bimmer, BMW ----