beef chit

noun

The menu in a ship's wardroom.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounbeef chit (plural beef chits)

plural beef chits

  1. slangnauticalThe menu in a ship's wardroom.

    Give me the beef-chit, and let me see if the chef 'as got the chow right.

    1935, Ian Hay, Sir Stephen King-Hall, Admirals All: An Amphibious Adventure in Three Acts, page 10
    1 more example

    The tombstone is another name for the beef chit, or menu, while a Bombay Duck is a bloater, a two-eyed steak a kipper, and the bags of mystery or links of love are sausages.

    1962, John O'London's, volume 6, page 571
Cite this entry
APA

beef chit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beef%20chit

MLA

“beef chit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beef%20chit. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beef chit,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beef%20chit.

Source: beef chit on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.