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string bean

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string bean (plural string beans)

A long, slender variety of green bean.
- 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables, Chapter 6,
  Summer squashes almost in their golden blossom; cucumbers, now evincing a tendency to spread away from the main stock, and ramble far and wide; two or three rows of string-beans and as many more that were about to festoon themselves on poles;
- 1963, Bob Dylan, "Talkin' World War III Blues":
  Well, I rung the fallout shelter bell / And I leaned my head and I gave a yell / “Give me a string bean, I’m a hungry man” / A shotgun fired and away I ran
(figuratively) A tall and thin person.
- 1925, Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith (novel), New York: New American Library, 1961, Chapter 15,
  My way o’ doing things suits me, and I don’t figure on changing it for you or any other half-baked young string-bean.
- 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, New York: Vintage, 1994, p. 31,
  She was once a tall stringbean of a girl whom the boys called “Red” in high school.

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