beef synonyms

beef

n.

  1. Bovine flesh used as food

    cow's flesh, steer beef, ox meat, red meat, cornfed beef, steak, hamburger, roast beef, pot roast, corned beef, pastrami, jerky, Kobe beef; see also meat.

  2. A grown animal of the genus Bos

    cow, bovine, bull, steer; see cow.

  3. *Human flesh

    flesh, brawn, meat*; see muscle.

  4. *A complaint

    dispute, protestation, gripe*; see objection 2.

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