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beef English

Meaning beef meaning

What does beef mean?
Definitions in simple English

beef Noun

— Beef is the meat of a cow. We're having ground beef for dinner. — A beef is a complaint: something that bothers someone, or that someone keeps getting a little angry about. One of my biggest beefs about this place is that you can't get a drink of water here.

beef

— noun cattle that are reared for their meat — noun meat from an adult domestic bovine — noun (= gripe) informal terms for objecting I have a gripe about the service here — verb (= holler) complain What was he hollering about?

Synonyms beef synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as beef?

beef English » English

gripe bitch squawk complaint kick grouse cow complain boeuf bellyache beef cattle whine ox meat grizzle crab veal steer plaint moan lamb holler grumble groan cattle bull whimper wailing sarcoid roast beef quetch plaintiveness nudge noodge niggle nag meaty lament kvetch kick up a fuss grouch grievance game fuss fattening cavil carp bovine bleat bibimbap

Topics beef topics

What do people use beef to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say Criticize

Complain
Daily life Food Types of food

Food from animals
Work and occupation Animal husbandry Domesticated animal

Cattle
Daily life Food Types of food Food from animals

Meat
Daily life Food Types of food

Prepared food

Conjugation beef conjugation

How do you conjugate beef?

beef · verb

Examples beef examples

How do I use beef in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Beef is expensive nowadays.
Beef, please.
We all pigged out at the company Christmas party, especially on the roast beef.
Would you like some more beef?
I know how to make beef stroganoff.
How do you like your beef stew?
That's why ostrich meat costs more than twice as much as beef and pork.
This beef is tender.
As a rule of thumb, you should plan on one pound of beef for every two guests.
Japanese beef was on sale yesterday.
Africa is exporting beef to Europe.
I prefer mutton to beef.
The Japanese eat more beef than the British do.
They'd better beef up their report or it won't be accepted.
Roast beef is usually accompanied by Yorkshire pudding.
How about some more roast beef?
I want beef, too.
He began to raise beef cattle.
Tom doesn't like beef.
Tom died because he had eaten some contaminated beef.

Movie subtitles

Will you take some of that leftover corned beef hash?
Yes. In examining the dog's stomach contents, we found a barely digested piece of beef steak.
What gets me so cockeyed sore at myself. is that I fell for that big hunk of beef.
The beef will seem less tough when she has invoked a blessing upon it.
Roast beef!
There's nothing like roast beef when a man's hungry.
Oh, the roast beef of old England.
That's no way to treat roast beef.
Miss Perkins, tin the roast beef.
I've heard enough of your beef.
He'd rather have a side of beef.
Beef, boar's head, casks of ale.
Here comes the beef trust.
Hey, bury that beef, will you?
Fine piece of beef. Ah!
Mustard's no good without roast beef.
But the roast beef is very good today.
What happened to that quarter of beef?
You don't want the beef now.
It's beef! - Beef?
Offhand, roast beef, I should say.
We have beef on Tuesday and boiled vegetables on Thursday.
Why don't you have a snort in the house for the poor man, instead of lamb on Sunday, stew on Monday, beef on Wednesday?
Did you bring back some beef?
In examining the dog's stomach contents, we found a barely digested piece of beef steak.
I'd like some corned beef hash and coffee, please.
You say your sugar daddy handed it over without a beef?
I hate music. What's the beef?
Roast beef, rather well done, sir.
Yes, but a good beef goulash with.
The Russia of borscht, the Russia of beef stroganoff.
She'll become beef.
She won't become beef!
Will she really become beef?
What was the beef out there?

News and current affairs

But even a partial shift in meat-consumption habits - with consumers choosing options like chicken and seafood, instead of beef - could have a far-reaching impact.
Indeed, beef production requires, on average, 28 times more land and 11 times more water than the other livestock categories, while producing five times more greenhouse-gas emissions and six times more reactive nitrogen.
To avoid problems, I ate only dates and American corned beef canned in 1941 and 1942 for the US Army.
South America is booming, as India and China swallow up its exports of iron, copper, soybeans, coffee, coal, oil, wheat, poultry, beef, and sugar.
These are not mineral-rich or bountiful agricultural nations: some coffee and bananas here, a little sugar and beef there, but nothing with which to sustain a boom.
Customers - who know what a smorgasbord is - understandably try to stuff as much food as they can onto the tiny saucer, sushi on top of roast beef.
In Europe, mad cow disease shocked many people, not only because it shattered beef's image as a safe and healthy food, but also because they learned that the disease was caused by feeding cattle the brains and nerve tissue of sheep.
People who naively believed that cows ate grass discovered that beef cattle in feed lots may be fed anything from corn to fish meal, chicken litter (complete with chicken droppings), and slaughterhouse waste.
It makes no sense to beef up airport security in London if a terrorist can enter the system easily in, say, Rome or Lagos.
European attitudes to the import of Caribbean bananas and hormone treated beef arouse strong reactions in North America.
Countries like Japan have agreed to let in more dairy products, sugar, beef, and rice from more efficient producers in countries like New Zealand and Australia.
The success of these groups, led by Plan International, has forced governments to toughen laws against child marriage, and - as in Pakistan's Sindh province - beef up enforcement and policing.
Meat production is about ten times more water-intensive than plant-based calories and proteins, with one kilogram of beef, for example, requiring 15,415 liters of water.
Of course, we now know that a diet of bully beef is likely to result in hardening of the arteries, whereas the vegetable-centered Mediterranean diet is much better for human health.
Shortages of medicines and basic foodstuffs such as milk, sugar, eggs, beef, and chicken abound as a consequence of price controls and mounting inflation.
The fact that Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, is not especially keen to agree to the United Nations' plan to beef up its peacekeeping force in the country ahead of the referendum raises concern about his intentions.
But British beef was not safe.
And politicians would need to beef up their charisma in order to be elected.
In Venezuela, land reform and socialist rhetoric did not prevent chronic shortages of milk, sugar, and beef.
What's the Beef in South Korea?
NEW YORK - At the outset of the ongoing violent protests in South Korea over imported beef from the United States, the entire cabinet of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak offered to resign. Last week, President Lee fired three of them.
But beef, it turns out, represents just the tip of the iceberg of grievances against President Lee.

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