beef

1. (n) (uncountable) The meat from cattle or other bovines. 2. (n) (in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat). 3. (n) (slang, uncountable or countable, plural beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with) 4. (n) (by extension, slang, uncountable) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency. 5. (n) (figurative, slang, uncountable) Essence, content; the important part of a document or project. 6. (n) (uncountable) Bovine animals. 7. (n) (now chiefly Canada, US, countable, now uncommon, plural beeves) A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat. 8. (adj) Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat. 9. (adj) Producing or known for raising lots of beef. 10. (adj) Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient. 11. (v) (intransitive, slang) To complain. 12. (v) (intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind. 13. (v) (transitive, slang) To fail or mess up. 14. (v) (chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against. 15. (v) (intransitive, slang, Australia) To sing or speak loudly; to cry out. 16. (v) (transitive, slang) To add weight or strength to. 17. (n) (Dorset) Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset. 18. (v) (intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry. 19. (adj) (slang) Beefy; powerful; robust.