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
So three unfortunate gunners and a bombardier were told off to mount guard over it, given some tins of bully beef and a few biscuits and marooned, as it were, till the morning.
From Servants of the Guns by Jeffery E. Jeffery
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