The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bully \Bul"ly\ (b[.u]l"l[y^]), n., Bully beef \Bul"ly beef`\ (b[.u]l"l[y^] b[=e]f`). [F. bouilli boiled meat, fr. bouillir to boil. See Boil, v. The word bouilli was formerly commonly used on the labels of canned beef.] Pickled or canned beef.
Wiktionary
n. (context British English) pickled or canned beef.
WordNet
n. beef cured or pickled in brine [syn: corned beef, corn beef]
Usage examples of "bully beef".
Pungushe was silent for the time it took Mark to spoon a slop of maize porridge and bully beef into the lid of the pannikin and take it to the Zulu.
She cooked over an open fire in the lean-to kitchen, and her invitations to dine were eagerly sought after by men who subsisted on canned bully beef and stamped maize meal.
I IL Anna produced a bunch of onions from her sack and used them to flavour the stew of canned bully beef that they boiled up over an open fire.
There were some tins of stew and bully beef that were held over to midday, but there was bread and jam to go with half a mug of tea.
Even army bully beef is going to taste good, said Sean in English, and Mbejane did not answer for he did not understand, but he was looking ahead with a vaguely worried frown on his face.
The knapsack contained a few items of clothing, not very clean, three tins of bully beef, a round, flat loaf about the size of a dinner plate, and a hunk of dried beef, I took all this sniff back to Harry.