Noun
I'm not eating as much beef as I used to.
My real beef is with the organization's president, not the group itself. Verb
She's always beefing about something.
he tends to stand around and beef for hours about any slight, real or imagined
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Noun
The suites are generous, the dining focuses on Argentinian beef, and the location positions you at the center of the city’s heartbeat.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 Aug. 2026 Though beef prices are up, Johnson has been forced to reduce his herd to one third its original capacity.—ABC News,
3 Aug. 2026
Verb
On the sixth day of France’s heat wave, when temperatures reached record highs, shoppers scrapped over box fans, and Americans and Europeans beefed on X, a neighbor in our apartment building near Paris finally broke down and texted me.—
Jessica Roy,
Curbed,
29 June 2026 The meat served is mostly beef, however, Brazilian steakhouses like Texas de Brazil also serve sausage, pork, chicken and sometimes lamb.—
Ella Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for beef
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French beof, bef ox, beef, from Latin bov-, bos head of cattle — more at cow
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