Beef meaning

What does “beef” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“beef” is a noun and verb with 4 meanings. Its most common meaning is: cattle that are reared for their meat.

beef

noun

  1. cattle that are reared for their meat

    Synonymsbeef cattle
  2. meat from an adult domestic bovine

    Synonymsboeuf
  3. informal terms for objecting

    “I have a gripe about the service here”

verb

  1. complain

    “What was he hollering about?”

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University