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beef extract

American  

noun

  1. a soluble paste of beef or beef blood extracts.


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Worn-out attendees could pep themselves up with a cup of the hot beef extract, which had a display stall at the convention.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2021

Other lies were totally legal: The beef extract Bovril was marketing itself in U.S. newspapers as a potential cure for the flu, noting that “its bodybuilding powers were … needed to fight the influenza epidemic.”

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2020

He pioneered nutritional science and invented beef extract.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2017

We’ve been sold meat substitutes such as beef extract in North America and Europe since the nineteenth century.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2013

Make a sauce as directed for No. 1, using in place of the beef extract a cupful of chopped round of beef, and a cupful of tomatoes.

From The Century Cook Book by Ronald, Mary