beefs

Variant of beef

beef definition

beef (bēf)

noun pl. beeves, beefs

  1. a full-grown ox, cow, bull, or steer, esp. one bred and fattened for meat
  2. meat from such an animal; specif., a whole dressed carcass
  3. such animals collectively
  4. ☆ Informal
    1. human flesh or muscle
    2. strength; brawn
  5. ☆ Slang a complaint

Etymology: ME < OFr boef < L bos (gen. bovis), ox (apparently an Oscan-Umbrian cognate form, replacing L *vos) < IE *gwōus < base *gwou-: see cow

intransitive verb

Slang to complain or protest
beef Idioms

beef up

Informal to strengthen by addition, reinforcement, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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