Synonyms for beef
noun
Bovine flesh used as food
cow's flesh, steer beef, ox meat, red meat, cornfed beef, steak, hamburger, roast beef, pot roast, corned beef, pastrami, jerky, Kobe beef; see also meat.
A grown animal of the genus Bos
cow, bovine, bull, steer; see cow.
*Human flesh
flesh, brawn, meat*; see muscle.
*A complaint
dispute, protestation, gripe*; see objection 2.
See beef in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
- (Informal)
Solid and well-developed muscles:
brawn, bulk, muscularity. See body - (Slang)
An expression of dissatisfaction or a circumstance regarded as a cause for such expression:
complaint, grievance. (Informal) gripe, grouse. (Slang) kick. Idiom: bone to pick. See happy
verb
- (Slang)
To express negative feelings, especially of dissatisfaction or resentment:
complain, grouch, grump, whine. (Informal) crab, gripe, grouse, kick. (Slang) bellyache, bitch. See feelings, happy
phrasal verb beef up- (Informal)
To make or become greater or larger:
aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, build, build up, burgeon, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, grow, increase, magnify, mount, multiply, proliferate, rise, run up, snowball, soar, swell, upsurge, wax. See increase
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