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beef trust

beef trust noun: a group of overweight or obese people.

Noun

beef trust (plural beef trusts)

  1. (US, slang) A group of overweight or obese people.
    • The beef trust was out in full force – these landladies were all shaped up like barrels, wherever there wasn't a crease in their meat there was a dimple.1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tea Don’t Do You that Way”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 91

Forms of beef trust

pluralbeef trusts

Origin of beef trust

Originally the name of a conglomerate of beef producers; later adopted ironically by US carnival showman WB ‘Billy’ Watson, who used it as the name for his sideshow of overweight women.

Questions about beef trust

What does beef trust mean?
Beef trust means a group of overweight or obese people.
What part of speech is beef trust?
Beef trust is a noun.
What is the plural of beef trust?
The plural of beef trust is beef trusts.

Words near beef trust in the dictionary

  1. beef tea
  2. beef teas
  3. beef to the hoof
  4. beef tomato
  5. beef tomatoes
  6. beef trust
  7. beef trusts
  8. beef up
  9. beef wellington
  10. beef Wellingtons
  11. beef-brained

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