beef

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Etymology [edit]

A chunk of beef.

From Old French buef, boef (“ox”) (modern French: bœuf); from Latin bōs (“ox”). Cognate to bovine.

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Noun [edit]

beef (plural beef or beefs or beeves)

  1. (uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.
    I love eating beef.
    1. (in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
      lean finely textured beef
      boneless lean beef trimmings
  2. (uncountable) Bovine animals.
    • 2010‎ October 21, “Who's the real McCoy? Abilene's Joseph in 8 Wonders contest”, Abilene Recorder Chronicle:
      However, there were millions of head of beef roaming the plains of Texas.
  3. (archaic, countable, plural: beef or beeves) A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
    Do you want to raise beeves?
  4. (usually countable, plural: beefs, uncountable in rap culture) a complaint or disagreement
    He has a beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
    He has beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
  5. Muscle, effort, force.
    Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump.
    We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that law.

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Hyponyms [edit]

  • (meat of a cow): veal

Derived terms [edit]

terms derived from beef (noun)

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Translations [edit]

meat
cow — see cow
bull — see bull

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Verb [edit]

beef (third-person singular simple present beefs, present participle beefing, simple past and past participle beefed)

  1. (intransitive) To complain.
    • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:
      He lost no time in bursting into speech. “Bertie! I've been hunting for you all over the place!” “I was having a chat with Swordfish in his pantry. Something wrong?” “Something wrong!” “Don't you like the Red Room?” “The Red Room!” I gathered from his manner that he had not come to beef about his sleeping accommodation. “Then what is your little trouble?”
  2. (transitive) To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
    Since you stopped running, you are really beefing out.
  3. (intransitive, slang) To fart.
    Ugh, who just beefed in here?
  4. (intransitive) (chiefly Yorkshire) To cry
    David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off

Derived terms [edit]

Adjective [edit]

beef (not comparable)

  1. Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
    We bought three beef calves this morning.
  2. Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
    beef farms
    beef country
  3. Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
    beef stew

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Translations [edit]

being a bovine animal raised for meat
producing or raising lots of beef meat
having beef as an ingredient

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Verb [edit]

beef

  1. first-person singular present indicative of beven
  2. imperative of beven
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