rump steak
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- noun
- /rʌmp steɪk/
- UK
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solomillo
- The waiter, for some reason, took my order first. 'I'll have the rump steak, rare please.'
Examples
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Oh, Matthew, would you like a rump steak?
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But they enjoy a good rump steak
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Oh, Matthew, would you like a rump steak?
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-Celery soup and rump steak.
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I'll have the rump steak, medium rare, with pepper sauce, thanks.
Synonyms
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A thick slice of meat, usually beef, that people cook to eat
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Morphology
The meaning 'a steak cut from the rump' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'rump' (rear body region) and 'steak' (a thick slice of meat), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the cut of meat from the rump. This is a straightforward compositional noun phrase following common cross-linguistic naming patterns for meat cuts and contains no idiomatic or metaphorical shift.
Etymology
The noun rump steak comes from the cow's rump, the 'rear' part of the animal, so the name simply tells you where the meat is cut from. That's why rump steak means a steak cut from the rump.