string bean

Noun

1. Any long, slender green bean.
   • 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...
   • 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 - 1963, Bob Dylan, “Talkin' World War III Blues”, in The...

   1. A common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)

   2. An immature runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus)

   3. A yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis)

   4. A hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus)

2. A tall and thin person.
   • 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. - 1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 15, in Arrowsmith, New York: New American Library, published 1961:
   • She was once a tall stringbean of a girl whom the boys called “Red” in high school. - 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 31: