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1. Cattle that are reared for their meat
   - beef cattle
    
2. Meat from an adult domestic bovine
   - boeuf
    
3. A complaint; the act of complaining
   "I have a beef about the service here";
   - gripe, kick, bitch, squawk

1. Complain
   - gripe, bitch, grouse, crab, squawk, bellyache, holler

Derived forms: beefing, beefed, beeves, beefs

Type of: Bos taurus, cattle, complain, cows, kick, kine [archaic], kvetch [N. Amer], meat, moan, objection, oxen, plain [archaic], quetch, sound off

Part of: Bos taurus, cattle, cows, kine [archaic], oxen

Encyclopedia: Beef Beef, No Chicken Beef, it's what's for dinner