Beef

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A full-grown steer, bull, ox, or cow, especially one intended for use as meat.
  • noun. The flesh of a slaughtered full-grown steer, bull, ox, or cow.
  • noun. Human muscle; brawn.
  • noun. A complaint.
  • intransitive verb. To complain.
  • phrasal verb. To make or become greater or stronger.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An animal of the bovine genus, whether ox, bull, or cow, in the full-grown state.
  • noun. The flesh of an ox, bull, or cow when killed.
  • noun. A name given by quarrymen to certain beds of fibrous carbonate of lime occurring in England in the middle division of the Purbeck series, the highest part of the Jurassic.
  • noun. Brawn; muscularity; weight and strength combined: as, the crew is lacking in beef.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, Bos taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
  • noun. The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
  • noun. Applied colloquially to human flesh.
  • adjective. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
  • adjective. essence of beef, or strong beef broth.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.
  • noun. Bovine animals.
  • noun. A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
  • noun. a complaint or disagreement
  • noun. Muscle, effort, force.
  • verb. To complain.
  • verb. To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
  • verb. To fart.
  • verb. (chiefly Yorkshire) To cry
  • adjective. Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
  • adjective. Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
  • adjective. Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. complain
  • noun. meat from an adult domestic bovine
  • noun. informal terms for objecting
  • noun. cattle that are reared for their meat
    • Word Usage
    "So the energy in beef is much, much higher than the other foods."
    cross-reference
    alamode beef  albany beef  baron of beef  beef ham  beefwood  
    Form
    beef out  beef up  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    complain  kick  kvetch  objection  plain  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Leif  aperitif  bas-relief  belief  brief  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    biscuit  butter  chicken  fish  lamb  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Brahman  Durham  Indian buffalo  Kerry  air a grievance  
    variant
    beeves  
    verb-form
    beefed  beefing  beefs  beeves  
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