Definition for BEEF'-EAT-ER

BEEF'-EAT-ER, n. [beef and eat.]

  1. One that eats beef.
  2. A yeoman of the guards, in England.
  3. The Buphaga, an African bird that feeds on the larvas which nestle under the hides of oxen.
  4. In popular use, a stout fleshy man.

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