beefs 1 of 2

noun

plural of beef
as in complaints
an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment had to deal with an angry customer with a beef about our service

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beefs

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verb

present tense third-person singular of beef
as in complains
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely he tends to stand around and beef for hours about any slight, real or imagined

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Recent Examples of beefs
Noun
Certain rap battles and beefs turn deadly. — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 26 June 2026 Lessons have been learned, boundaries are being drawn, and the beefs of yesterday are all water under the bridge. — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 8 May 2026 Mabrey, at least as of the first week of training camp, still had several semi-serious telecommunications beefs. — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 8 May 2026 The city says it doesn’t get involved in beefs between neighbors. — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 27 Feb. 2026 Cash’s twist in Lost Lambs makes conspiracy a practice honed by young girls, the kinds of people at the center of Pizzagate and rap beefs and the Epstein files. — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026 One of the president's biggest beefs with Greene was about her harping on Jeffrey Epstein. — Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025 Yes, sports have divas, beefs, drama, extracurricular social-media warfare, and lore worthy of a Real Housewives reunion, but all that is additive to the foundational experience, the competition itself. — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025 During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter to promote the film, the star opens up about putting previous beefs behind him. — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beefs
  1. complaints
  2. complains
  3. grievances
  4. screams
  5. gripes
  6. whines
  7. moans
  8. laments
Noun
  • The city says there was a large increase in complaints in May, likely due to the end of the school year.
    — Ashley Portillo, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • By doing it this way, the kids had to put some thought into which items meant the most to them, and there were no complaints afterward.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of complaints
Verb
  • The private sector complains that there are jobs but that Indians aren’t skilled enough to be hired.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Prescribing Tylenol to a patient who continually complains of back pain will not necessarily solve what ails them.
    — Chris Adams, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of complains
Noun
  • No oral history, no tell-all, no anonymous former executive airing grievances.
    — Jeff Rabhan, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Among the pieces of evidence found by authorities in Mangione’s backpack was a notebook that detailed his apparent grievances against the industry.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of grievances
Verb
  • The audience screams in response, and Scovel scolds them again but this time with a smile.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Witness accounts describe chaotic scene In the video, as many as five officers can be seen, and shrieks, screams, and cries are heard.
    — Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of screams
Noun
  • His policies on homelessness and affordable housing also faced gripes from those across the political spectrum.
    — Carl Luna, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The Prince That Was Promised Let’s dispense with my biggest gripes first.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of gripes
Verb
  • At one point, when Reagan suggests sharing missile-defense technology, Gorbachev stands up and whines about how America will not even share dairy technology so that the Soviets can provide milk to their children.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The snippet ends just as the cat whines and tucks its head beneath the barrier, not far from the officer filming the scene.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
Definition of whines
Noun
  • In the decades after his death, Johnson’s loose playing and harrowing moans set American music on a path that would encompass Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, even Nas.
    — Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026
  • Sweet tweets, soft moans, the distant caw of a shore bird piloting toward the sea, spirited and hopeful, daylight already breaking through.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
Definition of moans
Noun
  • Her laments are now laced with fury, as genocidal wars and murderous technologies join global warming in the twenty-first century’s third decade.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Fines aren’t the answer to the EU’s laments, but better third parties are.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
Definition of laments

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