Beef

Quick meaning: Beef is a noun meaning (uncountable) The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.

Meaning

(uncountable) The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Bovine animals.
2. (now chiefly Canada, US, countable, now uncommon, plural beeves) A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
3. (prison slang) A criminal charge.
4. (Dorset) Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
5. (intransitive, slang) To complain.
6. (transitive, slang) To add weight or strength to.
7. (slang, uncountable or countable, 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)

Example Sentences

I love eating beef.

Do you want to raise beeves?

He was cooking beef for lunch.

Cutting out a Beef for branding

Word Forms

• beefs
• beeves
• beefing
• beefed

Synonyms for beef

Depending on context, synonyms include cowflesh, oxflesh, gripe, grouse, squawk, kick.

Related Words

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