sirloin tip
- noun
- /ˈsɜrˌlɔɪn tɪp/
- Specialized
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- For a delicious and lean meal, I recommend a sirloin tip roast cooked with herbs and garlic.
- sirloin tip roast
- sirloin tip steak
- sirloin tip beef
Examples
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I got you a nice sirloin tip there.
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If you want to use lean cuts of beef, steaks such as eye of round, top round, sirloin tip, and top sirloin will do the trick; these usually turn out best if they're marinated for at least a few hours prior to being grilled.
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When preparing a barbecue, we often choose sirloin tip because it's an affordable yet flavorful cut of beef.
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The butcher suggested that the sirloin tip is best marinated before grilling to enhance its tenderness.
How Tender
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8
2.9
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2.1
- Specialized
- US
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5.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'sirloin' names a specific beef cut and 'tip' denotes the outer/end portion, so a learner who knows both words can infer this is the end portion of the sirloin (a sub-cut). This compounding pattern for meat cuts is regular and cross-linguistically common, making the expression transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Sirloin tip comes from the word sirloin, which long ago meant 'above the loin', and tip, meaning the small end. So it literally names the small end of the sirloin, which is why sirloin tip means the lean upper-end cut of beef today.