1
: a pole up which bean vines may climb
2
: a tall thin person
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Happily, though, three of the 2013 cast also return: Dan Butler, Sean Gormley, and the brilliant comic beanpole John Keating.
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Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
The wicked aunts in James And The Giant Peach, for example: Aunt Spiker is a beanpole, Aunt Sponge as rotund as a peach.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
But that coach came and went, and others with him, because few schools knew quite what to do with this beanpole of a pass-catcher — not fast enough to be a burner on the outside, not heavy enough to be a traditional tight end, floating in no man’s land between scouting categories.
—Luca Evans, The Denver Post, 21 Mar. 2025
Whole villages melt Into the sea from spit islands thin
As a beanpole’s waist.
—J.t. Townley, The New York Review of Books, 6 Mar. 2025
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Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
The wicked aunts in James And The Giant Peach, for example: Aunt Spiker is a beanpole, Aunt Sponge as rotund as a peach.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
But that coach came and went, and others with him, because few schools knew quite what to do with this beanpole of a pass-catcher — not fast enough to be a burner on the outside, not heavy enough to be a traditional tight end, floating in no man’s land between scouting categories.
—Luca Evans, The Denver Post, 21 Mar. 2025
Whole villages melt Into the sea from spit islands thin
As a beanpole’s waist.
—J.t. Townley, The New York Review of Books, 6 Mar. 2025
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“Beanpole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beanpole. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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