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Universal
1 [mass noun] the flesh of a cow, bull, or ox, used as food: there was the smell of roast beef [as modifier]:beef cattle [count noun] (plural beeves /biːvz/ or US also beefs) Farming a cow, bull, or ox fattened for its meat: a beef sent to the abattoir
2 [mass noun] informal flesh with well-developed muscle:he needs a little more beef on his bones strength or power:he was brought in to give the team more beef the substance of a matter:it’s more a sketch than a policy—where’s the beef?
3 (plural beefs) informal a complaint or grievance:he has a beef with education: it doesn’t teach the basics of investing
4US informal a criminal charge:getting caught with pot in the sixties was a narco beef
[no object] complain:he was beefing about how the recession was killing the business