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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ground beef
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Add garlic and ground beef and cook, stirring constantly to break up lumps.
▪ Chunks of frozen brine shrimp or a pile of ground beef will be greedily attacked.
▪ Cook ground beef, and drain off fat.
▪ Mix the ground beef with the cooked onions and butter.
▪ Myers marries a sexy butcher he comes to suspect of having more than ground beef in her freezer.
▪ Smokies are made of coarsely ground beef and pork; they are similar to frankfurters but are more heavily smoked.
▪ The soy-beef blends were displayed in the meat counter with ground beef.
▪ The use of fresh ground beef is a no-no.
Wiktionary
ground beef

n. 1 (context North America English) beef that has been grind; minced beef. 2 (context US standard of identity English) Chopped fresh or frozen beef without the addition of beef fat as seasoning, with no more than 30 percent fat, and with no added water, phosphates, binders, or extenders.

WordNet
ground beef

n. beef that has been ground [syn: hamburger]

Wikipedia
Ground beef

Ground beef, beef mince, minced beef, minced meat is a ground meat made of beef that has been finely chopped with a large knife or a meat grinder. It is used in many recipes including hamburgers and spaghetti bolognese. In some parts of the world, meat grinders are called mincers.

Usage examples of "ground beef".

Dye, on nearby South Rock Island Avenue, agreed to give Anderson five pounds of ground beef, at ten cents a pound, and enough buns for his first day of operation, on the promise that Anderson would pay him by noon.

Anna didnt feel like a sorceress, but like ground beef or the Erdean equivalent, and her legs shook after she dismounted.

As he and Bradley spoke together, the maddening aroma of simmering ground beef, vegetables, and tomato sauce began to fill the room, driving the cabbage back into the corners and making Richards realize how hungry he was.

Mother went off to turn the ground beef into a meatloaf and I settled down with the evening 'fax.

Choice of four fillings: ground beef, ham, turkey, or sausage meat.