beef
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
beef/biːf/
▶noun
- 1 the flesh of a cow, bull, or ox, used as food.
■ (pl. beeves /biːvz/) Farming a cow, bull, or ox fattened for its meat.
- 2 informal flesh with well-developed muscle.
■ strength or power.
■ the substance of a matter.
- 3 (pl. beefs) informal a complaint or grievance.
- 1 (beef something up) give something more substance or strength.
- 2 complain.
– origin ME: from OFr. boef, from L. bos, bov- ‘ox’.
'beef' also found in these Oxford entries:
Aberdeen Angus
- aitchbone
- à la mode
- baron of beef
- beefburger
- beefsteak fungus
- beef tea
- beef tomato
- beef Wellington
- beefy
- beeves
- biffin
- boerewors
- boeuf bourguignon
- Bovril
- bresaola
- bullock
- bullshot
- bully
- burrito
- carbonnade
- carpaccio
- Charolais
- chateaubriand
- chicken-fried steak
- chilli con carne
- chuck
- corned beef
- daube
- filet mignon
- fillet
- forerib
- frankfurter
- gosht
- hamburger
- Hereford
- kishke
- Limousin
- merguez
- nail
- oleomargarine
- olive
- pastrami
- pepperoni
- red meat
- rib-eye
- rump steak
- sausage
- shabu-shabu
