Definitions for beef
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. beef, beef cattlenoun

   cattle that are reared for their meat

2. beef, boeufnoun

   meat from an adult domestic bovine

3. gripe, kick, beef, bitch, squawkverb

   informal terms for objecting

   "I have a gripe about the service here"

4. gripe, bitch, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, hollerverb

   complain

   "What was he hollering about?"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. beefnoun

   The meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.

   I love eating beef.

2. beefnoun

   Bovine animals.

3. beefnoun

   A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.

   Do you want to raise beeves?

4. beefnoun

   a complaint or disagreement

   He has a beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.

5. beefnoun

   Muscle, effort, force.

6. beefverb

   To complain.

7. beefverb

   To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.

   Since you stopped running, you are really beefing out.

8. beefverb

   To fart.

   Ugh, who just beefed in here?

9. beefverb

   To cry

   David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off

10. beefadjective

    Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.

    We bought three beef calves this morning.

11. beefadjective

    Producing or known for raising lots of beef.

12. beefadjective

    Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.

    beef stew

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Beefadjective

   Consisting of the flesh of black cattle.

   Etymology: from the substantive.

   If you are employed in marketing, do not accept of a treat of a beef stake, and a pot of ale, from the butcher. Jonathan Swift.

2. BEEFnoun

   Etymology: bœuf, French.

   1. The flesh of black cattle prepared for food.

   What say you to a piece of beef and mustard? William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew.

   The fat of roasted beef falling on the birds, will baste them. Jonathan Swift.

   2. An ox, bull, or cow, considered as fit for food. In this sense it has the plural beeves; the singular is seldom found.

   A pound of man’s flesh
   Is not so estimable or profitable,
   As flesh of muttons, beeves, or goats. William Shakespeare, M. of Ven.

   Alcinoüs slew twelve sheep, eight white-tooth’d swine,
   Two crook-haunch’d beeves. George Chapman, Odyssey.

   There was not any captain, but had credit for more victuals than we spent there; and yet they had of me fifty beeves among them. Walter Raleigh, Apology.

   On hides of beeves, before the palace gate,
   Sad spoils of luxury! the suitors sate. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. beef

   Beef is the meat from cattle.

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1. beef

   Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle, particularly skeletal muscle. It is one of the principal meats used in the cuisine of Australia, Europe, and America, and is also important in Africa, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. The meat can be cut into steak, roasts or short ribs, or it can be ground and used in dishes like hamburgers. It is typically cooked in various ways, including grilling, broiling, roasting, or stewing.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Beefnoun

   an animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food

2. Beefnoun

   the flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food

3. Beefnoun

   applied colloquially to human flesh

4. Beefadjective

   of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Beef

   Beef is the culinary name for meat from bovines, especially cattle. Beef can be harvested from cows, bulls, heifers or steers. Beef muscle meat can be cut into steak, roasts or short ribs. Some cuts are processed, and trimmings, usually mixed with meat from older, leaner cattle, are ground, minced or used in sausages. The blood is used in some varieties of blood sausage. Other parts that are eaten include the oxtail, liver, tongue, tripe from the reticulum or rumen, glands, the heart, the brain, the liver, the kidneys, and the tender testicles of the bull. Some intestines are cooked and eaten as-is, but are more often cleaned and used as natural sausage casings. The bones are used for making beef stock. Beef from steers and heifers is very similar, except steers have slightly less fat and more muscle. Depending on economics, the number of heifers kept for breeding varies. Older animals are used for beef when they are past their reproductive prime. The meat from older cows and bulls is usually tougher, so it is frequently used for mince /ground beef. Cattle raised for beef may be allowed to roam free on grasslands, or may be confined at some stage in pens as part of a large feeding operation called a feedlot, where they are usually fed a ration of grain, protein, roughage and a vitamin/mineral preblend.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Beef

   bēf, n. the flesh of an ox or cow:—pl. Beeves, used in original sense, oxen.—adj. consisting of beef.—ns. Beef′-eat′er (bēf′-ēt′ėr), a popular name for a yeoman of the sovereign's guard, also of the warders of the Tower of London [the obvious ety. is the right one, there being no such form as buffetier, connected with buffet, a sideboard, as often stated]; Beef′iness; Beef′steak, a thick slice of beef for broiling or frying; Beef′tea, a stimulating rather than nutritious food for invalids, being the juice of beef strained off, after simmering chopped beef in water.—adjs. Beef′-wit′ted, Beef′-brained, dull or heavy in wits: stupid.—n. Beef′-wood, an Australian wood, of reddish colour, used in cabinetwork.—adj. Beef′y, like beef, fleshy, stolid. [O. Fr. boef (Fr. bœuf)—L. bos, bovis; cf. Gr. bous, Gael. bò, Sans. go, A.S. cú.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. beef

   A figurative term for strength.--More beef! more men on.

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. beefnoun

   beef "to have a problem with someone" example "me and that boy got beef" Also rappers often get into beefs which are fights through rap songs, sending diss tracks back and forth to each other.

2. beefnoun

   Rap Beef

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1. BEEF

   What does BEEF stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the BEEF acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Cattle
   • Meat

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'beef' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3061

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'beef' in Nouns Frequency: #2291

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Anagrams for beef »

1. feeb

How to pronounce beef?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say beef in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of beef in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of beef in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of beef in a Sentence

1. Mike Pompeo:

   These are folks that have fought with us and that it's important that we do everything we can to make sure that those folks that fought with us are protected and Erdogan has made commitments, he understands that -- I think he uses the language that he has no beef with the Kurds -- we want to make sure that that's the case.

2. Alexandre Polmard:

   I wanted to recreate the world of wine and shake up traditional butchery, seducing people once again to eat beef by offering them something exceptional.

3. Colin Kelly:

   For the Trump it was quite easy, because American burgers are an American staple and Mr. Trump himself is very extravagant, so thats why we went with double beef, double bacon, double cheese, fried pickles, and then we added the chicken floss, which represents his hair, which is one of Mr. Trumps most noticeable features.

4. Joe Schuele:

   Argentina hasn't accepted any beef exports from the U.S. since 2003 because of a mad cow disease case. That market has been closed to us for almost 12 years, we would be expanding our imports to Argentina when they won't accept anything from us.

5. Daniel Sui:

   Customers like U.S. beef because it tastes juicy and tender, but Wolfgang's only sells around seven to eight pieces of U.S. imported beef steak each day, the limited supply is because the Chinese government bans feed additives and only 5 percent of U.S. beef is qualified for export.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=beef
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Beef
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=beef
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beef
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=beef
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=beef
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=beef
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=beef