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noun

a slice of meat or fish, especially beef, cooked by broiling, frying, etc.

chopped meat prepared in the same manner as a steak.

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English steike < Old Norse steik meat roasted on a stick

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Fiercely grilled steak with a stark sauce is a combination popular throughout the world.

What follows are two recipes for fajitas: one mushroom, one steak.

Hominids have been cutting their steak for much longer than anybody thought.

Steak tartare may not have been the best choice for this meal.

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On the other hand, it's not that hard to cook a perfect steak.

It's not a big slab of steak but a smaller, succulent morsel of meat.

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If you can shell out the dough to cook a steak dinner for yourself, more power to you.

Ho-hum chicken and grilled steak won't impress the adventurous eater.

In today's health-conscious society, many diners consider their steak dinners to be a splurge.

Generously season both sides of steak with salt and pepper.

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Cooking a steak in the broiler or oven usually means sacrificing a good.

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Our fondness for a juicy steak triggered a number of adaptations over countless generations.

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He gobbled down a large steak as though it were a potato chip.

We started a campfire, ate a dinner of steak and potatoes and turned in for the night.

Miller recommends this as a great way to serve leftover steak.

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Guests are meant to dip an edge of each slice of steak in the salt.

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The last paragraph sent me away to a vision of lobbyists choking to death on steak bonesah, in a perfect world.

Simple and basic, this salad is a great complement to grilled chicken or steak.

But so does anyone else who ever downed a side salad before tearing into their steak.

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He says the new information was the equivalent of throwing a steak into shark-infested water.

All of the above bring out the savory soy in these skirt steak skewers off the grill.

Salisbury steak with mashed potatoes, creamed spinach and baked beans.

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But season a steak with coarse salt before and right after grilling, and you get delicious, juicy meat with a crunchy exterior.

She won't even reprimand students for breaking such social rules as using the clam shell fork to eat sirloin steak.

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World English Dictionary

steak (steɪk)

—n
1.	See beefsteak
2.	any of various cuts of beef of varying quality, used for braising, stewing, etc
3.	a thick slice of pork, veal, etc, or of a large fish, esp cod or salmon
4.	minced meat prepared in the same way as steak: hamburger steak

[C15: from Old Norse steik roast; related to steikja to roast on a spit; see stick¹]

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Word Origin & History

steak

1440, "thick slice of meat cut for roasting," probably from O.N. steik "roast meat," cognate with steikja "to roast on a spit," and ultimately "something stuck" (on a spit); related to stick (v.).

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