beef

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beef definition


  1. n.
    a complaint; a quarrel. : I gotta beef against you.
  2. n.
    a criminal charge or complaint. : The beef is that you appear to have left the bank Monday with about seventy-five grand that isn't yours. That's the beef!
  3. n.
    a large and muscular male. : Let's get one of those beefs in here to help.
  4. in.
    to complain. : What's he beefing about now?
  5. in.
    to break wind; to release intestinal gas audibly. (Usually objectionable.) : Willy warned everybody that he was going to beef.
  6. n.
    an act of breaking wind. (Usually objectionable.) : All right! Who's beef was that?
  7. in.
    to crack up and get injured as in a skateboard accident. : Chuck beefed and wrecked his elbow.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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beef

In addition to the idiom beginning with beef, also see where's the beef.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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