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n. (context US slang English) An overweight or obese person; also used as a collective singular.
Usage examples of "beef trust".
But excepting this consideration, and taking the circumstances of the wage slave from the material point of view alone, I hold it beyond question that the average lot of the chattel slave of 1860 was preferable to that of the modern slave of the Beef Trust, the Steel Trust, or the Coal Trust.
To the aliens what he said must have been a ghastly hodgepodge of gibberish but he was able to transmit his command to the general-something about a Day in May, the Alma Mater and a Donnybrook, red-eye cement mixers, a 'beef trust' and the sheenies-all of which was decipherable as: no Terran engagement in the battle between Arkon robots, Mounders and Springers except in case of catastrophe.