beef
noun
the flesh of a cow, steer, or bull raised and killed for its meat.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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As for the B-1 bomber decision, critics contend that the new plane will be obsolete by the late 1980s, when the Soviets will have beefed up their air-defense system.
From Time Magazine Archive
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