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Meanings of beefy in English

Muscular and heavily built.

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Usage of beefy in English
1
Colonel Johnson returned, and in his beefy fists were three thick files.
The President's Assassin
2
The villein did too, his beefy hands frozen on the wooden handles.
The irish warrior
3
The man was about his own height though older and rather beefy.
Dayworld Breakup
4
Emily pulled at her skirt-herlegs were looking beefy from swimming-andpaused.
Flawless
5
A big-boned man, he had probably been beefy much of his life.
My Name is Legion
6
Jack turned to watch the beefy cop cross to the bar .
The talisman
7
Nothing Greek, early Italian, Elizabethan, not even beefy, beery, broad old Georgian.
The Freelands
8
She thinks he was a big, beefy white guy wearing a hat.
Career of Evil
9
However, canned beef broths simply do not deliver full-bodied, beefy flavor.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
10
Xbox is taking direct aim at the PS5 with its beefy new console.
News.com.au
11
Fifty thousand beefy, probing questions are the disc's most impressive, if overwhelming, feature.
Wired
12
Tiny red capillaries seamed the beefy face of the fat man.
Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
13
Fortyish, medium height, medium weight, upper body on the beefy side.
Two for the dough
14
Sugarman arranged his beefy features into an expression of appropriate solemnity.
Spider bones: a novel
15
His beefy face was flushed as red as his flannel shirt.
Kid Wolf of Texas / A Western Story
16
Two beefy guards appeared and walked in front of him, barring his way.
Carte Blanche
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common