corned beef
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corned beef
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From corn (“to preserve (meat) in coarse corns of salt”, verb); (chief officer): rhyming slang for chief.
noun corned beefs · corn beef · corn-beef · cornbeef · corned-beef
- Smoke-cured and salted beef.
- Beef conserved in tins (cans). Here’s a grocery list of foods Chestnut has eaten competitively, drawn from his Major League Eating bio: apple pie, asparagus, boysenberry pie, brats, burritos, chicken spiedies (a kind of sandwich), chicken wings, chili, corned beef sandwiches, eggs, fish tacos, funnel cake, grilled cheese sandwich
- The chief officer of a prison. Steve and I raced for the building and began climbing the wall, before any of the screws knew what was happening. […] The Corned Beef came out first and initiated the ploy to get us down.
Translations
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noun smoke-cured and salted beef
| 한국어 | 콘비프 konbipeu, 콘드 비프 kondeu bipeu |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | コーンビーフ kōnbīfu |
| 中文 | 醃牛肉 /腌牛肉 yānniúròu |
| Português | salgado, bife salgado |
| Français | corned-beef |
| Deutsch | Corned Beef, Cornedbeef, Corned beef, gepökeltes Rindfleisch, Kraftfleisch, Rinderpökelfleisch |
| Ελληνικά | παστό βοδινό pastó vodinó |
| Русский | солони́на solonína |
| Tiếng Việt | thịt bò muối |
noun beef conserved in tins
| Español | carne en conserva |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 콘비프 konbipeu, 콘드 비프 kondeu bipeu |
| 日本語 | コンビーフ kōnbīfu |
| 中文 | 罐裝牛肉 /罐装牛肉 guànzhuāng niúròu |
| Português | bife enlatado |
| Deutsch | Büchsenfleisch |
| Ελληνικά | παστό βοδινό pastó vodinó |
| Русский | тушёнка tušónka |
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@misc{corned_beef_2026,
title = {corned beef},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/corned%20beef},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
