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beef
noun
an
informal
complaint
,
grudge
,
or
reason
for
disagreement
•
Do
you
still
have
a
beef
with
your
roommate
about
the
broken
lamp
?
Do
you
still
have
a
beef
with
your
roommate
about
the
broken
lamp
?
•
The
meeting
let
employees
air
their
long-standing
beefs
to
the
manager
.
The
meeting
let
employees
air
their
long-standing
beefs
to
the
manager
.
Extended
from
the
idea
of
cattle
lice
fights
in
the
19th
century
American
West
;
later
popularized
in
African-American
slang
for
disputes
.
verb
to
complain
persistently
,
often
about
something
small
•
Stop
beefing
about
the
rain
and
enjoy
the
picnic
.
Stop
beefing
about
the
rain
and
enjoy
the
picnic
.
•
He
beefed
to
the
waiter
that
his
soup
was
cold
.
He
beefed
to
the
waiter
that
his
soup
was
cold
.
Derived
from
the
noun
sense
of
‘
beef
’
meaning
a
complaint
;
first
recorded
in
early
1900s
American
slang
.
