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beef stew

n. a stew made with beef

Usage examples of "beef stew".

Mary was absorbed in cooking, humming as she stirred the big pot of beef stew, and she didn't hear him come in the back door.

Adam Real-Last-Name-Unknown, the psychotic bread baker, alone in his small, filthy Upper West Side apartment, his eyes two different sizes after a thirty-six-hour coke and liquor jag, white crust accumulated at the corners of his mouth, a two-day growth of whiskers-standing there in a shirt and no pants amongst the porno mags, the empty Chinese take-out containers, as the Spice Channel flickers silently on the TV, throwing blue light on a can of Dinty Moore beef stew by an unmade bed.

The big iron stove exuded a welcome warmth, and the rich scent of a spiced beef stew and the smell of biscuits filled the room.

On the other two days, when the beef stew or the chili ran out, he would just eat eggs and bread for breakfast, and perhaps go out at night for either a hamburger or a fried fish sandwich.

He cooled his beer in the water and cooked one of the cans of beef stew in its tin.

It was a French recipe for beef stew that had a long, elegant name.

It was beautiful, and it conjured up the description of his home he had given her over beef stew that night.