beefy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Similar to, or tasting like beef.

2. 2

   Containing beef.

   • The Chicken Big Mac is similar to its beefy sibling; however, it replaces the two burgers with two tempura chicken patties.
3. 3

   Strong or muscular.

   • The barman was a big, beefy guy with his sleeves rolled up and tattoos on his arms.
   • Soon the Latino warrior had bared his beefy body. His bullet packed bandolier still draped over one shoulder served to emphasize the nakedness of the torso, as did the boots and the pants that were puddled about his ankles.
   • The jaw bone in particular “looks more like that of H. erectus … than the beefier jaws of more primitive hominins such as H. habilis,” according to science journal Nature.
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   1. 4

      Large

      Large; overweight; fat.

      • Grumping indignantly, he said, "By ginger, a nice blanky thing to lose a good job and risk being dam' near killed by Peabody for a beefy married woman. I tell you she weighs over fifteen stone, absolutely."
   2. 5

      Sturdy

      Sturdy; robust.

      • The software slows down even a beefy computer.
      • “The beefiest part of Saturday evening’s meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi may well have been the local sirloin served for dinner,” Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, wrote to clients on Monday.

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