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BEEF
beef, beef cattle
(noun) cattle that are reared for their meat
gripe, kick, beef, bitch, squawk
(noun) informal terms for objecting; “I have a gripe about the service here”
beef, boeuf
(noun) meat from an adult domestic bovine
gripe, bitch, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler
(verb) complain; “What was he hollering about?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
beef (countable and uncountable, plural beef or beefs or beeves)
(uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.
(in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
(uncountable) Bovine animals.
(archaic, countable, plural: beeves) A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
(by extension, slang, uncountable) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
(figurative, slang, uncountable) Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
(slang, countable or uncountable, plural: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
Synonyms
• (meat of a cow): cowflesh
• (meat of an ox): oxflesh
Hyponyms
• (meat of a cow): veal
Verb
beef (third-person singular simple present beefs, present participle beefing, simple past and past participle beefed)
(intransitive) To complain.
(transitive) To add weight or strength to; to beef up.
(intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind.
(African-American Vernacular, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.
(intransitive, chiefly, Yorkshire) To cry
(transitive, slang) To fail or mess up.
Adjective
beef (not comparable)
Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
Anagrams
• Feeb, feeb
Source: Wiktionary
Beef, n. Etym: [OE. boef, befe, beef, OF. boef, buef, F. b, fr. L. bos, bovis, ox; akin to Gr. , Skr. g cow, and E. cow. See 2d Cow.]
1. An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
Note: [In this, which is the original sense, the word has a plural, beeves (.] A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. Milton.
2. The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
Note: [In this sense, the word has no plural.] "Great meals of beef." Shak.
3. Applied colloquially to human flesh.
Beef, a.
Definition: Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef. Beef tea, essence of beef, or strong beef broth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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