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
Lunch is best enjoyed at the beach bar (the standout dish here was the beef carpaccio).—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Oct. 2026 Some households can substitute cheaper items for more expensive ones — such as buying chicken instead of beef, for example — as an anti-inflation strategy, Galston said.—
Greg Iacurci,
CNBC,
16 Oct. 2026
Verb
The menu offers something for a wide assortment of pallets, from lobster salad and island creek oysters to beef fat fries and Italian sausage.—
Hannah Hudnall,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2026 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 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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