beeves

Noun

beef (countable and uncountable, plural beef or beefs or beeves)

1. (uncountable) The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
   • I love eating beef.

   Synonyms:

   cowflesh, oxflesh

   1. (on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
      • lean finely textured beef
   2. (broadly, slang, uncountable) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
      • Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump.
   3. (figuratively, slang, uncountable) Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
      • The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.
2. (uncountable) Bovine animals.
   • However, there were millions of head of beef roaming the plains of Texas.2010 October 21, “Who's the real McCoy? Abilene's Joseph in 8 Wonders contest”, in Abilene Recorder Chronicle
3. (Canada, US, countable, uncommon, plural beeves) A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
   • Do you want to raise beeves?

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