Definitions

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  • adjective Like beef, or some aspect of beef.

Etymologies

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beef +‎ -like

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Examples

  • There is also some membrane on the inside of the auricles/ventricles that looks less “beeflike”, which you may want to remove for the look of the thing.

    You gotta have heart | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2007

  • Even Jews who have a horror of fresh pork can happily consume multiple slices of bacon, perhaps because the curing process produces a very different sort of meat from the frankly pink, bluntly sweet, and very un-beeflike pork (as Elissa Altman, who was brought up in a Jewish home, theorized in a 2003 paean to Connecticut pork in The Hartford Courant).

    Better Bacon 2005

  • Even Jews who have a horror of fresh pork can happily consume multiple slices of bacon, perhaps because the curing process produces a very different sort of meat from the frankly pink, bluntly sweet, and very un-beeflike pork (as Elissa Altman, who was brought up in a Jewish home, theorized in a 2003 paean to Connecticut pork in The Hartford Courant).

    Better Bacon 2005

  • Last night’s episode was about a crash project to grow beef (or at least something beeflike) without the cow.

    Better Off Ted: Test Tube Meat 2009

  • I myself have never been able to figure out the difference between bistek and filete at the butcher's, since they look suspiciously like the same cut and both, presumably, derive originally from the same beeflike animal -- whence also derives the ubiquitous hamburguesa).

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 3 1975

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