baby beef
Americannoun
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a young beef animal that has been fattened for marketing when 12 to 20 months old.
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the meat of a baby beef.
Etymology
Origin of baby beef
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
Example Sentences
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This baby feels like a miracle to me.
From Slate • Sep. 10, 2020
If you’re on Monday and your husband is on Tuesday, who deals when the baby feels like hanging out from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.?
From Slate • Dec. 10, 2019
Even the way that Webster has been directed to stand and hold her baby feels unimaginative—a vignette, of sorts, of endangered motherhood, that indicates little interesting about her, her baby, or the scene itself.
From Salon • May 2, 2016
Putting paper diapers on my baby feels like a triumph and a defeat.
From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2014
"The baby feels better," said Graffam to his wife; and he thought to himself, "I too should feel better, could I break my chains and be a man."
From Be Courteous or, Religion, the True Refiner by Maxwell, Mrs. M. H.
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