What's The Definition Of Beef?
[n] cattle that are reared for their meat
[n] informal terms for objecting; "I have a gripe about the service here"
[n] meat from an adult domestic bovine
[v] complain; "What was he hollering about?"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Beef: beef cattle |
bellyache |
bitch |
boeuf |
gripe |
gripe |
grouse |
holler |
kick |
squawk |
squawk
Related Terms | Find terms related to Beef: air a grievance |
altercation |
amperage |
arm |
armipotence |
aurochs |
authority |
avoirdupois |
beef cattle |
beef extract |
beef tea |
beefiness |
beefing |
beeves |
bellyache |
bellyaching |
bickering |
bison |
bitch |
bitching |
black power |
bleat |
blow off |
boggle |
bossy |
bouillon |
bovine |
bovine animal |
boycott |
Brahman |
brawl |
brawn |
brawniness |
brute force |
buffalo |
bull |
bullock |
bully |
bully beef |
calf |
call in question |
carabao |
cattle |
challenge |
charge |
charisma |
charqui |
chipped beef |
clamor |
clout |
cogence |
cogency |
complain |
complaining |
complaint |
compulsion |
compunction |
cow |
crab |
critter |
croak |
cry out against |
dairy cattle |
dairy cow |
deadweight |
demonstrate |
demonstrate against |
demonstration |
demur |
demurrer |
destructive criticism |
dint |
dispute |
dissent |
dogie |
dried beef |
drive |
duress |
effect |
effectiveness |
effectuality |
elasticity |
energy |
enter a protest |
exception |
expostulate |
expostulation |
falling-out |
fatness |
faultfinding |
flower power |
force |
force majeure |
forcefulness |
fret |
fret and fume |
full blast |
full force |
fuss |
gravity |
grievance |
grievance committee |
gripe |
griping |
groan |
groaning |
gross weight |
grouch |
ground beef |
grouse |
grousing |
growl |
grumble |
grumbling |
grunt |
hamburger |
heaviness |
heft |
heftiness |
heifer |
holler |
hornless cow |
howl |
huskiness |
Indian buffalo |
indignation meeting |
influence |
involuntary muscle |
jerky |
kick |
kicking |
kine |
leppy |
liveweight |
lodge a complaint |
main force |
main strength |
mana |
march |
maverick |
might |
might and main |
mightiness |
milch cow |
milcher |
milk cow |
milker |
moxie |
muley cow |
muley head |
murmur |
murmuring |
muscle |
muscle power |
muscularity |
musculature |
musk-ox |
mutter |
neat |
neat weight |
net |
net weight |
nonviolent protest |
object |
objection |
overbalance |
overweight |
ox |
oxen |
pastrami |
peeve |
peevishness |
pet peeve |
petulance |
physique |
picket |
picketing |
pizzazz |
ponderability |
ponderosity |
ponderousness |
poop |
potence |
potency |
potentiality |
poundage |
power |
power pack |
power structure |
power struggle |
powerfulness |
prepotency |
press objections |
productiveness |
productivity |
protest |
protest demonstration |
protestation |
puissance |
pull |
punch |
push |
qualm |
querulousness |
raise a howl |
rally |
register a complaint |
remonstrance |
remonstrate |
remonstration |
rhubarb |
roast beef |
salt beef |
scolding |
scruple |
sinew |
sinewiness |
sinews |
sit in |
sit-in |
sniping |
squabble |
squawk |
squawking |
state a grievance |
steam |
steer |
stirk |
stot |
strength |
strike |
strong arm |
suet |
superiority |
superpower |
take on |
teach in |
teach-in |
thew |
thewiness |
thews |
tiff |
tone |
tonnage |
underweight |
validity |
vehemence |
vigor |
vim |
virility |
virtue |
virulence |
vitality |
voluntary muscle |
wattage |
weight |
weightiness |
whining |
wisent |
yak |
yammer |
yap |
yapping |
yawp |
yearling |
yell bloody murder |
yelp |
zebu
See Also | Aberdeen Angus |
Angus |
beef loin |
beefalo |
black Angus |
Bos taurus |
Bos taurus |
bully beef |
cattalo |
cattle |
cattle |
Charolais |
complain |
corn beef |
corned beef |
cows |
cows |
cut of beef |
Durham |
Galloway |
ground beef |
hamburger |
Hereford |
kick |
kine |
kine |
kvetch |
longhorn |
meat |
objection |
oxen |
oxen |
pastrami |
plain |
quetch |
Santa Gertrudis |
shorthorn |
sound off |
Texas longhorn |
whiteface
Beef In Webster's Dictionary
\Beef\ (b[=e]f), n. [OE. boef, befe, beef, OF. boef, buef,
F. b[oe]ef, fr. L. bos, bovis, ox; akin to Gr. boy^s, Skr.
g[=o] cow, and E. cow. See 2d {Cow}.]
1. An animal of the genus {Bos}, especially the common
species, {B. taurus}, including the bull, cow, and ox, in
their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for
food.
Note: [In this, which is the original sense, the word has a
plural, beeves (b[=e]vz).]
A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine.
--Milton.
2. The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal,
when slaughtered for food.
Note: [In this sense, the word has no plural.] ``Great meals
of beef.'' --Shak.
3. Applied colloquially to human flesh.
\Beef\, a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
{Beef tea}, essence of beef, or strong beef broth.
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