Definitions for beeves

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Spelling: [beevz]

IPA: /bivz/

Beeves is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in beeves (beeesv).

Definitions for beeves

noun

1. a plural of beef.
2. the flesh of a cow, steer, or bull raised and killed for its meat.
3. an adult cow, steer, or bull raised for its meat.
4. Informal. brawn; muscular strength. strength; power. weight, as of a person. human flesh.
5. Slang. a complaint. an argument or dispute.

Verb phrases

1. beef up, to add strength, numbers, force, etc., to; strengthen: to increase or add to:

verb (used without object)

1. Slang. to complain; grumble.

Origin of beeves

1250-1300; 1885-90 for def 5; Middle English Anglo-French beof, Old French boef Latin bov- (stem of bōs) ox, cow; akin to cow¹

Examples for beeves

There is an average of three beeves to each person, and 20 sheep to each inhabitant.

The whole 3,500 head of beeves will be shipped East this fall.

They reminded him of the beeves in the shambles of the elder Varro.

They had with them 200 pack-horses laden with flour, and the remainder of the beeves.

We thence all marched to the mines, where we killed three beeves to feed the Indians.

One with lauds and beeves, with rents and consols, mark you?

In some of the yards not less than five hundred beeves are slaughtered daily.

Don't these beeves, muttons, and fishes live on vegetables and animals?

Far away to the right are two of our scouts driving two beeves.

The men of my mess had killed all the beeves and mutton up to that time.