to beef
- verb
- /biːf/
- Slang
- What are you beefing about now?
She wants peace so badly, but she's beefing it with God right now.
- She wants peace so badly, but she's beefing it with God right now.
- I have been until recently we squashed our beef, but I have been beefing with TSA for a while.
- Moving along, I got in a major dust up with your boy Bryce beefing.
- And some months back or something, I have some friends that were beefing with a cartel that is from the area that they were taking me.
- There was the Soflo stuff, the Soflo Man when we were when we were beefing with Soflo and they were like threatening to sue us and shit.
- Yeah, shits be happening because the man then be beefing in it.
Examples
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Candice just knew her mother was at home beefing over her chronic tardiness.
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I have been until recently we squashed our beef, but I have been beefing with TSA for a while.
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What really started me writing was I just wanted to beef with my father.
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Like we're beefing and fighting, but we can't even address the reasons why.
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She wants peace so badly, but she's beefing it with God right now.
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Stop beefing.
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What are you beefing about now?
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Stop beefing and resolve your differences peacefully.
Synonyms
To speak angrily with someone because you disagree
To complain a lot in an annoying way
To complain repeatedly about small things
Argue again and again with someone about small unimportant things
To argue angrily with someone about small things
To argue loudly about small unimportant things
To complain about something
To complain loudly about something you think is unfair
Talk angrily to someone because of a disagreement
To complain about small unimportant things
To complain loudly in a way that annoys other people
To argue loudly for a long time
To complain about small or unimportant things
To complain often about small things
Argue with someone and feel angry or upset afterward
To complain a lot in an annoying way
To complain in a small, repeated way
To argue loudly about small unimportant things
To complain about something in a casual way
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A dish of cooked beef strips and mushrooms in a sour cream sauce served with noodles
A clear liquid made by slowly cooking beef and vegetables in water, used for soups and sauces
A rich liquid you make by cooking beef bones and vegetables slowly for soups and sauces
- UK
A South American garden plant with green, purple, or red leaves and small woolly flower spikes
A dish of beef slowly cooked in beer with garlic and served with boiled potatoes
How Forceful
- Specialized
- Slang
Surface Forms
Etymology
Beef (verb) comes from the same slang noun 'complaint' and means 'to complain'. So, to beef about something is to complain or argue about it.