1. Cattle that are reared for their meat
   "The rancher's herd of beef cattle grazed contentedly in the pasture";
   - beef cattle
    
2. Meat from an adult domestic bovine
   "The beef bourguignon was simmered for hours in red wine";
   - boeuf
    
3. [informal] A complaint or act of complaining
   "I have a beef about the service here";
   - objection, gripe [informal], kick [informal], bitch [informal], squawk [informal]

1. Complain
   "He's always beefing about the food in the cafeteria";
   - gripe, bitch [informal], grouse, crab [informal], squawk, bellyache [informal], holler [informal]

Derived forms: beefed, beefing, beefs, beeves

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

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

Encyclopedia: Beef, it's what's for dinner