Beef

/bif/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

I love eating beef.

He was cooking beef for lunch.

But the cars & trucks held cartons of roast chickens, slabs of cheeses, loaves of bread, racks of hotdogs, case upon case of soft drinks, cases of bottled sparkling water, pies, cakes, roast beefs & baked hams.

However, there were millions of head of beef roaming the plains of Texas.

Do you want to raise beeves?

263. If he [one to whom a beef or sheep is loaned] ruins the beef or sheep that was loaned him, he is to return to the owner a beef for a beef and a sheep for a sheep.

Cutting out a Beef for branding

Howbeit, that country bringeth forth certain kinds of goodly great wild bœufes: to wit, the Biſontes, mained with a collar, like Lions: and the Vri, a mightie ſtrong beaſt, and a ſwift: which the ignorant people call Buffles, whereas indeed the Buffle is bred in Affrica, and carieth ſome reſemblance of a calfe rather, or a ſtag.

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• beef
• beefs
• beeves
• beefing
• beefed

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