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Beater vs Beaner - What's the difference?

beater | beaner |

As nouns the difference between beater and beaner

is that beater is someone or something that beats or beater can be (us|informal) a sleeveless undershirt while beaner is (us|racial slur|offensive) a mexican or beaner can be (baseball) a pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter.

beater

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone or something that beats.
  • A kitchen implement for mixing.
  • A stick used to play a percussion instrument.
  • A man who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, often working in a group.
  • A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
  • (US, informal) An automobile in poor operating condition.
    • Derived terms
    * eggbeater * world-beater
    Synonyms
    * (stick for a percussion instrument) drum stick

    Etymology 2

    By shortening from wife beater.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, informal) A sleeveless undershirt.

    • Anagrams

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    beaner

    English

    Etymology 1

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

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, racial slur, offensive) A Mexican.
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  • * {{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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    • 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.
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  • * {{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.
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