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neckbeef en · NOUN

Etymology

From neck + beef.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, uncountable) Meat from the neck of cattle.
   • We refer to Arbitration, which at present would be far more used than is the case, if the tendency to resort to it were not constantly obstructed by our lawyers, who naturally enough consider it an inferior commodity—something like neckbeef. 1887, Laurence Gronlund, The Co-operative Commonwealth in Its Outlines: An Exposition of Collectivism:

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