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beef trusts

beef trusts is the plural of beef trust.

Meaning of beef trust

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

Questions about beef trusts

What is beef trusts the plural of?
Beef trusts is the plural of beef trust.

Words near beef trusts in the dictionary

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

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