Usually means: Meat from cattle, rich flavor.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. beef: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. beef: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beef: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beef: Collins English Dictionary
  5. beef: Vocabulary.com
  6. Beef, beef: Wordnik
  7. beef: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. beef: Wiktionary
  9. beef: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. beef: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. beef: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. beef: Dictionary.com
  13. beef: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. beef: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. BEEF, Beef (band), Beef (disambiguation), Beef (documentary), Beef (film), Beef (rapper), Beef: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Beef: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. beef: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. beef: Rhymezone
  19. beef: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. beef: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. beef: Free Dictionary
  22. beef: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Beef (Argument): The Word Detective
  24. beef: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. beef: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beef: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BEEF: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. beef: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. beef, beef, beef, beef, beef, beef: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. beef: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. beef: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) The meat from cattle or other bovines.
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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