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cephalothoracopagus (medicine) and beef(2) (iou)


cephalothoracopagus (medicine)


cephalothoracopagus


Conjoined twins with the bodies fused in the cephalic and thoracic regions.

See: conjoined twins.

Origin: cephalo-+ G. Thorax, chest, + pagos, something fixed


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.