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beef

/biːf/

noun 9
verb 7
adjective 4
forms 4
phrases 5

noun9

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meat taken from cows, bulls or similar animals, usually when they are fully grown
- I love eating beef.
- He was cooking beef for lunch.
The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
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(slang) 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)
- He's got beef over what you said.
- He's got a beef with everyone in the room.
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(slang) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
- 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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Bovine animals.
- However, there were millions of head of beef roaming the plains of Texas. — 2010
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(US, Canada) A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
- Do you want to raise beeves?
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(slang, figurative) Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
- The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.
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(slang) A criminal charge.
- I'm in prison for attempting to kill two police officers (a genuine bum beef) and am alleged to be a part of a group of mad bombers. — 1986
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Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
- Medium-grey paper shales with beef. — 1993

verb7

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(slang) to complain about something, often again and again
- “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. — 1960
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(slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.
- Those two are beefing right now — best you stay out of it.
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(slang) to make something stronger by adding more to it, usually used with "up" after it
- First off, the axle housing was beefed by welding areas where extreme loading is evident (black marked areas). — 1969
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(slang) to fail at something by doing it very badly
- I beefed my presentation hard yesterday.
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(slang) to let gas out of the body through the anus, to fart
- Ugh, who just beefed in here?
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to cry with tears running down the face, usually from sadness or pain
- David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off.
(Australia, slang) to sing, speak or call out in a very loud voice

adjective4

Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
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Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
- We bought three beef calves this morning.
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Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
- beef farms
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(slang) Beefy; powerful; robust.
- Wow, your audio setup is beef!

forms

beefed · beefing · beefs · beeves

Phrases with beef

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