corn beef

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See also: corn-beef and cornbeef

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Etymology[edit]

Lexicalization of a reduced pronunciation of corned beef with regular deletion of -d before b. Compare ice cream and mash potato.

Noun[edit]

corn beef (countable and uncountable, plural corn beefs)

  1. Alternative form of corned beef
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