beef
- Top 3000
Sense 1
- noun
- A1
Meat that comes from a cow or a bull and is cooked and eaten.
This stew needs another hour before the beef gets tender.
She stopped eating beef and pork three years ago.
Minced beef with onions makes a quick and cheap dinner.
The beef was tough and dry, so nobody finished it.
Common collocations: roast beef · minced beef · beef stew · lean beef · a slice of beef
Part of: Meat and fish, Cooking, Restaurants
Sense 2 · less common
- noun
- C1
An angry feeling or complaint that one person keeps against another.
He still has a beef with his former boss.
What's your beef with the new opening hours?
The two singers finally settled their beef last year.
Common collocations: have a beef with somebody · settle a beef · what's your beef?
Part of: Talking to people, Negative emotions, Attitudes and opinions
Forms
- plural (sense 2: complaint)
- beefs