beaner vs lead off

beaner

• A pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter. 

• Any Hispanic person. 

• Head. 

• A Mexican. 

lead off

• The first batter of an inning. 

• The first batter in the batting order. 

• The short distance that a player stands away from their current base. 

• To be the first batter of an inning. 

• To be the first of any set, especially the first person in a group to speak; to launch or begin something by speaking. 

• Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lead, off.