baked bean noun3 •A single bean in a portion of baked beans. •[before a noun] baked beansCatweazle paused, about to drink from an old baked-bean tin while Touchwood looked on beadily. — 1970 •(slang) The queen.The Baked Bean Although I am patriotic, I don't consider myself a Royalist per se, but I challenge even the most hardened anti-monarchist to meet the Queen and not be slightly awed. — 2019 formsbaked beans