bean shoot
n.— «Only a few weeks shy of parole in 1995, Andre found himself confined to a cell with walls the color of Pepto-Bismol. He received his meals through a slit in the door known in prison parlance as a “bean shoot”; his best friend was his only visitor: a mouse.…From the Pink Room, Andre was moved to the segregation unit proper, where men on (comparably) good behavior were permitted to leave their cells for one hour a day and open their bean shoots to talk to one another.» —“Jermaine Andre brings the Code of the Samurai to cage fighting” by Molly Langmuir Riverfront Times (St. Louis, Missouri) Mar. 28, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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