Beef

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A full-grown steer, bull, ox, or cow, especially one intended for use as meat.
  • n. The flesh of a slaughtered full-grown steer, bull, ox, or cow.
  • n. Informal Human muscle; brawn.
  • n. Slang A complaint.
  • verb-intransitive. Slang To complain.
  • phrasal-verb. beef up Informal To make or become greater or stronger: beef up the defense budget.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.
  • n. Bovine animals.
  • n. A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
  • n. a complaint or disagreement
  • n. Muscle, effort, force.
  • v. To complain.
  • v. To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
  • v. To fart.
  • v. (chiefly Yorkshire) To cry
  • adj. Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
  • adj. Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
  • adj. Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
  • n. Applied colloquially to human flesh.
  • adj. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An animal of the bovine genus, whether ox, bull, or cow, in the full-grown state.
  • n. The flesh of an ox, bull, or cow when killed.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Brawn; muscularity; weight and strength combined: as, the crew is lacking in beef.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. complain
  • n. meat from an adult domestic bovine
  • n. informal terms for objecting
  • n. cattle that are reared for their meat
  • Verb Form
    beefed    beefing    beefs    beeves   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sound off    kick    quetch    complain    plain    kvetch    objection   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    beeves   
    Form
    beef up    beef out   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bovine    neat    cow    free-martin    ox    steer    heifer    muley    mulley    bullock   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Leif    aperitif    bas-relief    belief    brief    chief    debrief    disbelief    fief    grief   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pork    meat    chicken    potato    steak    rice    butter    vegetable    soup    biscuit