roast beef

noun4

1. •
   Beef cooked by roasting.
2. •
   A cut of beef that has been roasted.

   • I tell the waiter, 'We'll have two roast beefs, one well-done, the other medium rare.' — 2000
3. •
   A portion of roasted beef.

   • Because there, in the middle of the table, among the roast beefs on rolls,[…] — 2006
4. •
   A cut of beef intended for roasting.

   • Two or three times a week I had to deliver fifteen- or twenty-pound roast beefs to delis around the Bronx so that they could cook them and slice them up for sandwiches. — 1999