- a person who eats beef, typified as a large, well-fed, red-faced person
- a guard at the Tower of London
- popularly yeoman of the (royal) guard
beefeater
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beefeater
noun
A yeoman of the British monarch's royal guard.
Origin of beefeater
Earlier well-fed servant
beefeater
at the Tower of London
London, England
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Noun
(plural beefeaters)
Noun
(plural Beefeaters)
- (informal, UK) A Yeoman Warder
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