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beef out

beef out verb: to convert steer to beef; to slaughter cows, etc.

Verb

beef out (third-person singular simple present beefs out, present participle beefing out, simple past and past participle beefed out)

  1. (slang, transitive) To convert steer to beef; to slaughter cows, etc.
    • We'll get some money if we beef out those cows.
  2. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular) To have a beef or grudge against somebody.
    • “Look. I apologize. I hope you don't have any ill will toward me,” the girl said. “I'm Chanel.” Raegan wanted to beef out with the girl, but inside she knew that she had set herself up. She had invested her all into a man who had invested nothing.2012, Ashley Antoinette, Guilty Gucci
    • Now, I'm not trying to beef out with you. If we go to war, don't nobody make no dough, feel me?2008, Treasure Hernandez, Flint; Book 4: Resurrection

Forms of beef out

third-person singular presentbeefs out
present participlebeefing out
past participlebeefed out
pastbeefed out

Questions about beef out

What does beef out mean?
Beef out means to convert steer to beef; to slaughter cows, etc.
What part of speech is beef out?
Beef out is a verb.
What is the past tense of beef out?
The past tense of beef out is beefed out.

Words near beef out in the dictionary

  1. beef olive
  2. beef olives
  3. beef on the hoof
  4. beef on weck
  5. beef on wecks
  6. beef out
  7. beef plate
  8. beef rib
  9. beef ribs
  10. beef salpicao
  11. beef stew

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