"old bean" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from playful mid-word substitution of \"boy\" in \"old boy\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "old beans",
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        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1876, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 37, page 238",
          "text": "[…] 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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, H. G. Wells, Kipps, vi. §4",
          "text": "When this here old Bean told me, you could have knocked me down with a feather.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An old friend; an old chap or fellow."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "friend",
          "friend"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, slang, dated, sometimes as a term of address) An old friend; an old chap or fellow."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "old boy"
        },
        {
          "word": "old chap"
        }
      ],
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        "dated",
        "slang",
        "sometimes",
        "term-of-address"
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      "tags": [
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  "word": "old bean"
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{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from playful mid-word substitution of \"boy\" in \"old boy\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "old beans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "old boy"
    },
    {
      "word": "old chap"
    }
  ],
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
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          "ref": "1876, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 37, page 238",
          "text": "[…] 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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, H. G. Wells, Kipps, vi. §4",
          "text": "When this here old Bean told me, you could have knocked me down with a feather.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An old friend; an old chap or fellow."
      ],
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        [
          "friend",
          "friend"
        ]
      ],
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        "(British, slang, dated, sometimes as a term of address) An old friend; an old chap or fellow."
      ],
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        "dated",
        "slang",
        "sometimes",
        "term-of-address"
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  "word": "old bean"
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