Beef vs. Ox
Beef and Ox Definitions
Beef
A full-grown steer, bull, ox, or cow, especially one intended for use as meat.
Ox
An adult castrated bull of the genus Bos, especially B. taurus, used chiefly as a draft animal.
Beef
The flesh of a slaughtered full-grown steer, bull, ox, or cow.
Ox
A bovine mammal, especially one that has been domesticated.
Beef
(Informal) Human muscle; brawn.
Ox
An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus), especially when used as a beast of burden.
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Beef
Pl. beefs Slang A complaint.
Ox
Any bovine animal (genus Bos). A neat, a beef.
Beef
To complain.
Ox
Abbreviation of oxygen
Beef
(uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.
I love eating beef.
Ox
The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male and female.
All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field.
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Beef
The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
Lean finely textured beef
Boneless lean beef trimmings
Ox
An adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus
Beef
Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump.
We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that law.
Ox
Any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos
Beef
Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.
Beef
(uncountable) Bovine animals.
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Beef
A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
Do you want to raise beeves?
Beef
A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
He's got beef over what you said.
He's got a beef with everyone in the room.
Remember what happened last fall? That's his beef with me.
Beef
(Dorset) Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
Beef
To complain.
Beef
To add weight or strength to.
Beef
To fart; break wind.
Ugh, who just beefed in here?
Beef
To feud or hold a grudge against.
Those two are beefing right now
– best you stay out of it for now.
Beef
To cry.
David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off.
Beef
To fail or mess up.
I beefed my presentation hard yesterday.
Beef
Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
We bought three beef calves this morning.
Beef
Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
Beef farms
Beef country
Beef
Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
Beef stew
Beef
(slang) beefy; powerful; robust.
Wow, your audio setup is beef!
Beef
An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, Bos taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine.
Beef
The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
Beef
Applied colloquially to human flesh.
Beef
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
Beef
Cattle that are reared for their meat
Beef
Meat from an adult domestic bovine
Beef
Informal terms for objecting;
I have a gripe about the service here
Beef
Complain;
What was he hollering about?
