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beef(encyclopedia)
beef(2)(dictionary)
beef(1)(dictionary)
Moo Shu Beef(recipes)
Beef Up(money)
What's the Beef(tourism)
Beef empanadas(recipes)
Beef kidney(recipes)

beef(2) (iou)



beef verb. [bi:f] M19.
[from the noun.]
verb trans. Slaughter for beef; fig. (US slang) knock down. M19.
verb trans. Put muscle into, strengthen, reinforce; add power or importance to. Usu. foll. by up. slang (orig. US). M19.
D. Acheson The Defense Department required no persuasion that the defense of Europe needed, in their phrase, 'beefing up'. I. Banks I'd brought a half bottle of whisky..which we used to beef up the coffee.
verb intrans. Complain, grumble, protest. slang (orig. US). L19.
Stevie Smith Not beefing about being solitary Or the sparseness of the fare.