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    beef·y
    /ˈbēfē/

    adjective

    • 1. muscular or robust: informal "he shrugged his beefy shoulders"
    • 2. tasting like beef.

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  2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishBEEFY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    Beefy is an informal adjective that means strong, heavy, and powerful, or powerful and effective. Learn how to use it in different contexts, see synonyms and translations, and hear the pronunciation.

  3. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › beefyBeefy Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    Beefy is an adjective that means heavily and powerfully built, substantial, or of or suggesting beef. See synonyms, example sentences, word history, and related entries for beefy.

  4. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › beefyBeefy - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

    Someone who's beefy has a big, dense, muscular body. Your beefy, loud-voiced gym teacher might turn out to be a sweet and thoughtful person. The adjective beefy is a bit derogatory — in other words, it's not exactly used as a compliment.

  5. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › definition › englishbeefy adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage...

    Beefy is an informal adjective that means big and strong, especially of a person or their body. Learn how to use it in sentences, pronounce it, and find synonyms and related words.

  6. www.thefreedictionary.com › beefyBeefy - definition of beefy by The Free Dictionary

    Beefy means muscular, brawny, or filled with beef. Find out the origin, usage, and translations of this informal adjective from various sources.

  7. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishBEEFY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

    Someone, especially a man, who is beefy has a big body and large muscles. ...a beefy red-faced Englishman. Synonyms: brawny , strong , powerful , athletic More Synonyms of beefy

  8. www.oed.com › dictionary › beefy_adjbeefy, adj. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English...

    The earliest known use of the adjective beefy is in the mid 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for beefy is from 1743, in a letter by Horace Walpole, author, politician, and patron of the arts. beefy is formed within English, by derivation.