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Old bean

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    An old friend; an old chap or fellow. British, dated, slang, sometimes, term-of-address

    "[…] it is really an uncommon piece of exaggerative imagination which we find in the description of this old bean's elaborate costume, with its pads, straps, strings […]"

Etymology

Possibly from playful mid-word substitution of "boy" in "old boy"

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