beefy

From beef +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːfi/

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• Rhymes: -iːfi

beefy (comparative beefier, superlative beefiest)

1. Similar to, or tasting like beef.
2. Containing beef.
   • 2024 October 3, Jordan Valinsky, “McDonald’s is finally selling the Chicken Big Mac in the US”, in CNN‎^[1]:

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

3. (informal) Strong or muscular.

   The barman was a big, beefy guy with his sleeves rolled up and tattoos on his arms.

   • 2016 June 9, James Griffiths, “This is how the ‘Hobbits’ of Indonesia became so small”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2025 March 15, A.C. Thompson, James Bandler, “The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram: Inside a Global Online Hate Network”, in ProPublica‎^[3]:

     A beefy guy who enjoyed posting photos of himself in military gear, Smith had a love of explosives — he urged his fellow Terrorgrammers to bomb electric power stations, cell towers and natural gas lines — and contempt for federal law enforcement agents.

4. Large; overweight; fat.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82:

     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."

5. (informal) Sturdy; robust.

   The software slows down even a beefy computer.

   • 2018 December 3, Matt Egan, “Dow rises 288 points on US-China trade ceasefire”, in CNN‎^[4]:

     “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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