Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A slice of meat, typically beef, usually cut thick and across the muscle grain and served broiled or fried.
- noun A thick slice of a large fish cut across the body.
- noun A patty of ground meat broiled or fried.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slice of flesh, as beef, pork, venison, or halibut, broiled or fried, or cut for broiling or frying.
- noun A slash or panel in a garment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A slice of beef, broiled, or cut for broiling; -- also extended to the meat of other large animals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A slice of
beef ,broiled or cut for broiling. - noun By extension, a slice of meat of other large animals; as venison steak, bear steak, pork steak, turtle steak.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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Sometimes this steak is wrongly called a club steak, but no confusion will result if it is remembered that a _club steak_ is a porterhouse steak that has most of the bone and the flank end, or "tail," removed.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish
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Hope you find that little restaurant in downtown Paree where the steak is almost twitching and the sauce says "heaven can wait".
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Hope you find that little restaurant in downtown Paree where the steak is almost twitching and the sauce says "heaven can wait".
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Hope you find that little restaurant in downtown Paree where the steak is almost twitching and the sauce says "heaven can wait".
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Hope you find that little restaurant in downtown Paree where the steak is almost twitching and the sauce says "heaven can wait".
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Hope you find that little restaurant in downtown Paree where the steak is almost twitching and the sauce says "heaven can wait".
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Hope you find that little restaurant in downtown Paree where the steak is almost twitching and the sauce says "heaven can wait".
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Hope you find that little restaurant in downtown Paree where the steak is almost twitching and the sauce says "heaven can wait".
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Hope you find that little restaurant in downtown Paree where the steak is almost twitching and the sauce says "heaven can wait".
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Hope you find that little restaurant in downtown Paree where the steak is almost twitching and the sauce says "heaven can wait".
john commented on the word steak
But as Mr. Newman told Playboy magazine, in an often-repeated quotation about marital fidelity, “I have steak at home; why go out for hamburger?�?
The New York Times, Paul Newman, a Magnetic Titan of Hollywood, Is Dead at 83, by Aljean Harmetz, September 27, 2008
September 28, 2008
dontcry commented on the word steak
I read that today and I love it. *sniff*
September 28, 2008