club steak

American  

noun

1. a beefsteak cut from the rib end of the short loin, or sometimes a porterhouse or T-bone steak from which the tenderloin has been trimmed.

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Etymology

Origin of club steak

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15

Example Sentences

When investigators discovered recently that several supermarkets in the city were labeling $1.59-a-lb. rib roast as $2.19-a-lb. club steak, and selling rump as more expensive eye-round cuts, Deaner warned the store managers to stop.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I’d give a year of my life for a club steak and all the regular fixings.”

From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)