beefsteaks

Noun

beefsteak (countable and uncountable, plural beefsteaks)

1. (A) steak cut from a cattle beast (e.g., cow, steer).
   • Fa la la la
     Fa la la lee
     Now let me go, my honey oh
     back to Tennessee
     It's beefsteak when I'm workin,
     whiskey when I'm dry, and
     sweet heaven when I die
     It's beefsteak when I'm workin,
     whiskey when I'm dry, and
     sweet heaven when I die2011, Gillian Welch, “Tennessee”, in The Harrow & the Harvest, performed by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
2. (uncountable) The herb prepared from the leaves of the beefsteak plant.
3. (archaic, countable) A celebratory dinner, commonly held in New York between about 1870 and 1940 involving the consumption of enormous quantities of broiled steak and beer.