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Roast beef
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Beef cooked by roasting. countable, uncountable
- 2 cut of beef suitable for roasting wordnet
- 3 A cut of beef that has been roasted. countable, uncountable
"I tell the waiter, 'We'll have two roast beefs, one well-done, the other medium rare.'"
- 4 A cut of beef intended for roasting. countable, uncountable
"Two or three times a week I had to deliver fifteen- or twenty-pound roast beefs to delis around the Bronx so that they could cook them and slice them up for sandwiches."
- 5 A portion of roasted beef. countable, uncountable
"Because there, in the middle of the table, among the roast beefs on rolls,[…]"
Etymology
From roast + beef. Doublet of rosbif, a reborrowing.
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