bully beef
canned or pickled beef.
Origin of bully beef
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How to use bully beef in a sentence
Mostly, he recounts his adventures dodging bombs, meeting brave men, and eating a lot of bully beef.
Sometimes Memoirs, Especially by Our Own Kin, Tell Us More Than They Intend | Louisa Thomas | June 16, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTOn the whole, the axe has it; one must have fires; and bully beef can be eaten in the slab form.
The Relief of Mafeking | Filson YoungThe ration now is five biscuits (the full ration) and a Maconochie, or bully beef.
In the Ranks of the C.I.V. | Erskine ChildersWe have had no fresh meat for a long time back, but one manages with an occasional change of bully beef or a commandeered chicken.
In the Ranks of the C.I.V. | Erskine ChildersThe strong steaming brew served to wash down the scanty supply of cold bully beef.
War in the Garden of Eden | Kermit Roosevelt
All our pals were willing to contribute, and they gave us bully-beef and biscuits from their scanty stores.
Into the Jaws of Death | Jack O'Brien
British Dictionary definitions for bully beef
tinned corned beef: Often shortened to: bully
Origin of bully beef
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