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Definition of Beef

Beef

  1. An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
  2. The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
  3. Applied colloquially to human flesh.
  4. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.

Beef Quotations

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
James Lovelock

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
Neal Barnard

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.
Shel Silverstein

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart
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Beef Translations

beef in Afrikaans is beesvleis
beef in Dutch is klapstuk, rundvlees
beef in French is boeuf, beuf
beef in German is Speck, meckern, Rindfleisch, Rindfleisch
beef in Portuguese is carne
beef in Spanish is carne de vaca

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