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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.

▶verb informal

• 1 (beef something up) give something more substance or strength.

• 2 complain.

– origin ME: from OFr. boef, from L. bos, bov- ‘ox’.