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Definition of beef verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

beef

verb

NAmE//bif//

[intransitive] beef (about somebody/something) (informal)Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they beef

he / she / it beefs

past simple beefed

-ing form beefing

to complain a lot about someone or something Just ignore her, she's always beefing about something.

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