Roast beef

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Beef cooked by roasting. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    cut of beef suitable for roasting wordnet
  3. 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. 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. 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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