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beef chit

beef chit noun: the menu in a ship's wardroom.

Noun

beef chit (plural beef chits)

  1. (slang) The menu in a ship's wardroom.
    • Give me the beef-chit, and let me see if the chef 'as got the chow right.1935, Ian Hay, Sir Stephen King-Hall, Admirals All: An Amphibious Adventure in Three Acts, page 10
    • The tombstone is another name for the beef chit, or menu, while a Bombay Duck is a bloater, a two-eyed steak a kipper, and the bags of mystery or links of love are sausages.1962, John O'London's, volume 6, page 571

Forms of beef chit

pluralbeef chits

Questions about beef chit

What does beef chit mean?
Beef chit means the menu in a ship's wardroom.
What part of speech is beef chit?
Beef chit is a noun.
What is the plural of beef chit?
The plural of beef chit is beef chits.

Words near beef chit in the dictionary

  1. beef
  2. beef bayonet
  3. beef bayonets
  4. beef bourguignon
  5. beef bourguignons
  6. beef chit
  7. beef chits
  8. beef curtains
  9. beef flaps
  10. beef house
  11. beef houses

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