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beef out en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (slang, transitive) To convert steer to beef; to slaughter cows, etc.
    • We'll get some money if we beef out those cows.
  2. (intransitive, qualifier:African-American Vernacular) To have a beef or grudge against somebody.
    • “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:
    • 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:

Forms

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beefs out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
beefing out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
beefed out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
beefed out Tense=Past lexicographic