beef out

verb

To convert steer to beef; to slaughter cows, etc.

“We'll get some money if we beef out those cows.”

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Meanings

verbbeef out (third-person singular simple present beefs out, present participle beefing out, simple past and past participle beefed out)

present singular third person beefs out · participle present beefing out · participle past beefed out · past beefed out

  1. slangtransitiveTo convert steer to beef; to slaughter cows, etc.

    We'll get some money if we beef out those cows.

  2. intransitiveAfrican-American VernacularTo have a beef or grudge against somebody.

    Now, I'm not trying to beef out with you. If we go to war, don't nobody make no dough, feel me?

    2008, Treasure Hernandez, Flint; Book 4: Resurrection
    1 more example

    “Look. I apologize. I hope you don't have any ill will toward me,” the girl said. “I'm Chanel.” Raegan wanted to beef out with the girl, but inside she knew that she had set herself up. She had invested her all into a man who had invested nothing.

    2012, Ashley Antoinette, Guilty Gucci
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Chicago

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