beef

noun

• 1the flesh of a cow, bull, or ox, used as food.
• (plural beeves /bēvz/) Farming a cow, bull, or ox fattened for its meat.
• informal flesh or muscle, typically when well developed:he needs a little more beef on his bones
• informal strength or power:he’s been brought in to give the team more beef

• 2 (plural beefs) informal a complaint or grievance:he has a beef with American education: it doesn’t teach the basics of investing

• 3US informal a criminal charge:a drunk-driving beef

verb

• complain:he was beefing about how the recession was killing the business