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What does beef mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word beef? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.
    1. (in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
    2. (uncountable) Bovine animals.
    3. (archaic, countable, plural: beeves) A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
    4. (by extension, slang, uncountable) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
    5. (figuratively, slang, uncountable) Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
  2. (slang, countable or uncountable, 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)
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To complain.
  2. (transitive) To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
  3. (intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind.
  4. (African American Vernacular, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.
  5. (intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry
Adjective
  1. Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
  2. Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
  3. Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
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