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pit beef

pit beef noun: roast beef, commonly top round cuts, cooked quickly over a charcoal fire, then thinly sliced and served on a kaiser roll with tiger sauce and sliced raw onion.

Noun

pit beef (uncountable)

  1. (Baltimore) Roast beef, commonly top round cuts, cooked quickly over a charcoal fire, then thinly sliced and served on a kaiser roll with tiger sauce and sliced raw onion.
    • Pit beef is a local specialty around Baltimore, Maryland.

Questions about pit beef

What does pit beef mean?
Pit beef means roast beef, commonly top round cuts, cooked quickly over a charcoal fire, then thinly sliced and served on a kaiser roll with tiger sauce and sliced raw onion.
What part of speech is pit beef?
Pit beef is a noun.

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