Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a tall, thin person.

1836		T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 254: A bean pole of a lawyer.
1842		Wkly Rake (NY) 13 Aug. n.p.: Broadway Characters [...] Gawky Jim L— A beanpole hidden by a shirt.
1850		J.C. Neal Pic-nic Sketches 225: He cannot look upon the slender longitude of a bean-pole [...] without experienceing emotions of envy.
1862		‘Artemus Ward’ Artemus Ward, His Book 23: A solum female, lookin sumwhat like a last year’s bean-pole stuck into a long meal bag.
1867		G.W. Harris ‘What Bob Dawson Said ...’ Chattanooga Daily Amer. Union 28 Nov. in Inge (1967) 180: A darn bean pole, in one layer of linen, more like a ghost.
1882		Dundee Eve. Teleg. 20 June 2/2: [from US press] In the fashion plates the bean-pole variety of young lady has exclusive possession [...] Fat girls are not worth dressing.
1888		Canterbury Jrnl 12 May 3/2: In some schools such boys are promptly nicknamed [...] Bricktop, Shorty, Beanpole.
1899		H. Garland Boy Life on the Prairie 283: I’m going to double that bean-pole.
1900		Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Sept. 35/4: [A]nd finally there was a very beanpole of a Queenslander – Nazarenic in his ignorance of a razor.
1909		Carr & Chase in ‘Word-List From Aroostook’ in DN III:v 417: tall as a beanpole, adj. phr. Very tall, of persons.
1918		‘Commander’ Clear the Decks! 111: Migg’s invitation was now being answered by a pair of bronzed bean-poles.
1929		E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 51: The teacher was a tall, thin, straight-up-and-down sort of dry beanpole.
1936		J.T. Farrell World I Never Made 43: That woman [...] the old telephone pole!
1939		R. Chandler Big Sleep 185: She was tall rather than short, but no bean-pole.
1949		J.H. Burns Lucifer with a Book 191: There were the burly, the beanpoles, the handsome, the splotched with acne from chocolate munching.
1953		J. Thompson Alcoholics (1993) 3: You goofy-looking beanpole!
1963		B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 51: Being married to that hot bean-pole and havin’ to sleep with it in one bed.
1978		R. Price Ladies’ Man (1985) 224: I pointed to a straw blond Gestapo queen beanpole.
1981		J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 170: That beanpole get here at noon, and he loops before me.
1995		M. Simpson ‘Nights in Gardens of Spain’ Catching Up with Hist. 35: Hunchbacks, beanpoles, negro dwarves.
2005		P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 284: She focks off and brings the beanpole with her.
2011		C.F. Holme ‘Night at the Royale’ in Pulp Ink [ebook] This time, it was the beanpole who spoke first.

2. as a term of address.

1983

C. Heath A-Team 2 (1984) 138: Is your momma too cool to ride with us, beanpole?