meat from a bullock, cow, or bull
(pl beeves, NAmer beefs) a full-grown ox, cow, or bull, esp when fattened for food
the flesh of a bullock, cow, or other adult domestic bovine animal
(pl beeves, NAmer beefs) an ox, cow, or bull in a full-grown or nearly full-grown state; esp a bullock or cow fattened for food
a dressed carcass of a beef animal
informal muscular flesh; brawn
informal a complaint
[Middle English from Old French buef ox, beef, from Latin bov-, bos head of cattle]