beefsteak

Meanings

1. (A) steak cut from a cattle beast (e.g., cow, steer).
2. Ellipsis of beefsteak plant, also known as perilla and shiso (Perilla frutescens var. crispa).
3. The herb prepared from the leaves of the beefsteak plant.
4. Ellipsis of beefsteak tomato.
5. Ellipsis of beefsteak mushroom.
6. A celebratory dinner, commonly held in New York between about 1870 and 1940 involving the consumption of enormous quantities of broiled steak and beer.

Etymology

From beef + steak. Doublet of bifshtek and bistek.