English Explanatory Dictionary

corned beef

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Smoke-cured and salted beef.
  2. Beef conserved in tins (cans).
  3. The chief officer of a prison.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-corned beef.wav

Word forms

corned beef corned beefs corn beef corn-beef cornbeef corned-beef

Etymology

From corn (“to preserve (meat) in coarse corns of salt”, verb); (chief officer): rhyming slang for chief.

Related words

bully beef pastrami smoked meat salt beef
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