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Noun

beef (countable and uncountable, plural beef or beefs or beeves)

1. (uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.
   1. (in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
   2. (uncountable) Bovine animals.
   3. (archaic, countable, plural: beeves) A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
   4. (by extension, slang, uncountable) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
   5. (figuratively, slang, uncountable) Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
2. (slang, countable or uncountable, plural: beefs) 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)

Verb

beef (third-person singular simple present beefs, present participle beefing, simple past and past participle beefed)

1. (intransitive) To complain.
2. (transitive) To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
3. (intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind.
4. (African American Vernacular, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.
5. (intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry

Adjective

beef (not comparable)

1. Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
2. Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
3. Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.