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▸ noun: (in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
▸ noun: (by extension, slang, uncountable) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
▸ noun: (figurative, slang, uncountable) Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Bovine animals.
▸ noun: (now chiefly Canada, US, countable, now uncommon, plural beeves) A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
▸ noun: (slang, uncountable or countable, plural beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
▸ noun: (Dorset) Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
▸ verb: (intransitive, slang) To complain.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To add weight or strength to.
▸ verb: (intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind.
▸ verb: (intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To fail or mess up.
▸ verb: (chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.
▸ verb: (intransitive, slang, Australia) To sing or speak loudly; to cry out.
▸ adjective: Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
▸ adjective: Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
▸ adjective: Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
▸ adjective: (slang) Beefy; powerful; robust.
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