Meaning

7 senses
  1. (intransitive, slang)To complain.

    complain

  2. (slang, transitive)To add weight or strength to.

  3. (intransitive, slang)To fart; break wind.

    Ugh, who just beefed in here?

  4. (Yorkshire, intransitive)To cry.

    David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off.

  5. (slang, transitive)To fail or mess up.

    I beefed my presentation hard yesterday.

  6. (Multicultural London English, intransitive, slang)To feud or hold a grudge against.

    Those two are beefing right now — best you stay out of it.

  7. (Australia, intransitive, slang)To sing or speak loudly; to cry out.

Examples

232 sentences
  1. Tom likes beef and I do, too.

    Том любить яловичину, і я теж. — deniko

    ruТом любит говядину, и я тоже. — marafon

  2. I don't like beef and Tom doesn't either.

    Я не люблю яловичину, і Том теж. — deniko

    ruЯ не люблю говядину, и Том тоже. — marafon

    deIch mag kein Rindfleisch, und Tom mag auch keines. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom doesn't like beef.

    Том не любить яловичину. — deniko

    ruТом не любит говядину. — Biga

    deTom mag Rindfleisch nicht. — Yorwba

  4. I don't eat beef.

    Я не їм яловичину. — deniko

    ruЯ не ем говядину. — Balamax

  5. I don't like beef.

    Я не люблю яловичину. — deniko

    ruЯ не люблю говядину. — marafon

    deIch mag kein Rindfleisch. — Luiaard

Origin

From Middle English beef, bef, beof, borrowed from Anglo-Norman beof, Old French buef, boe

From Middle English beef, bef, beof, borrowed from Anglo-Norman beof, Old French buef, boef (“ox”) (modern French bœuf); from Latin bovem (“ox”), from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Doublet of cow.

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Forms

beefs, beefing, beefed, beefed
Base formbeef · to beef
3rd person singularbeefs
Present participlebeefing
Past simplebeefed
Past participlebeefed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybeef
he, she, itbeefs

Past simpleLesson

all personsbeefed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave beefed
he, she, ithas beefed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill beef

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

7 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

Collocations

4 patterns
  • beef stew
  • roast beef
  • eat beef
  • like beef

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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