beef

beef
1. noun /biːf/
a) The meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.

I hate eating beef.

b) Bovine animals.

Do you want to raise beeves?

2. verb /biːf/
a) To complain.

Since you stopped running, you are really beefing out.

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

Ugh, who just beefed in here?

3. adjective /biːf/
a) Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.

We bought three beef calves this morning.

b) Producing or known for raising lots of beef.

beef farms

See Also: beefy

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