Definition of "beano" []

• A form of bingo, especially one using beans as markers. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Originally called beano, the game was first introduced in the United States by Edwin Lowe, who had seen the game played during a traveling carnival in 1929."
• "Albert Hall, a new dress of silver and paste diamonds, a fat supper, and that jolly feeling of believing that a real "beano" is justified because, after all, _we_ won the war, didn't we?"
• "The 'beano' comes very near to this land -- so near that across its marches you may hear the sackbut and shawm from the breaks."