(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Beans such as green ~s, French ~s, or broad ~s are the seeds of a climbing plant or the long thin cases which contain those seeds.
N-COUNT: usu pl, usu adj N
2.
Beans such as soya ~s and kidney ~s are the dried seeds of a ~ plant.
N-COUNT: usu pl, usu n N
3.
Beans such as coffee ~s or cocoa ~s are the seeds of plants that are used to produce coffee, cocoa, and chocolate.
N-COUNT: usu pl, usu n N
4.
If someone is full of ~s, they are very lively and have a lot of energy and enthusiasm.
Jem was full of ~s after a long sleep.
PHRASE: v-link PHR
5.
If you spill the ~s, you tell someone something that people have been trying to keep secret.
PHRASE: V inflects