bully beef
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bully beef
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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He said: "You all stick together like glue and the main thing is 'how soon can I have a cup of tea and a bully beef sandwich?"
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2024
Tell you what, there’s a tin of bully beef in the locker.
From Slate • Jun. 10, 2019
“If they think Spam is terrible, they ought to have eaten the bully beef we had in the last war.”
From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2017
One of the ornate lanterns made from a bully beef tin in the Italian Chapel.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2012
Owing to the lack of fresh vegetables and improper food, the rations of bully beef and hard-tack, and the assaults of blood-sucking insects, many deaths occurred.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan
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