Beanstalk
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The stem of a bean plant, proverbially fast-growing and tall.
- 2 stem of a bean plant wordnet
- 3 A tall, slim person. broadly, colloquial, figuratively
- 4 A space elevator.
"If we don't build a Beanstalk, somebody else will—and once one is working, the number of rocket launches will drop to zero. That's the source of more than half our income."
Example
More examples"At the night of the 28th of December of 2024, I was at Starbucks café, here on Lulu Island. Peter the redhead linguistics guru and I greeted each other "Happy New Year!" At home, cousin Eve's cousin Rex was relaxing in front of the kitchen television with Eve and Mama. Rex is visiting from the states. I offered them some shrimp crackers, which Rex gifted me earlier. In the fridge, Mama has a big load of lotus leaf-wrapped meat-stuffed sticky rice packs from their outing today. I was playing with Grok AI: I was thinking that AI could write me a story about Jack and the Beanstalk in Tagalog or Esperanto. A person named Jack is the cousin of Eve and Rex. He lives in the Philippines. On the kitchen television at home was showing a renowned Filipina singer singing before she had a sex-change operation to become a man. I told Rex that I read about such operations in the Biomedical Library in my university, UBC."
Etymology
From bean + stalk.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.