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Meanings of bully beef in English

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corned beef

Beef cured or pickled in brine.

        corned beef
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        Examples for "corned beef"
        Examples for "corned beef"
        1
        They'd gone the colour of corned beef, and had a scaly look.
        Wastelands
        2
        Investigator turned up his nose and said: I never touch corned beef.
        The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ...
        3
        At the next counter there was corned beef, streaked fat and lean.
        Buttered Side Down: Stories
        4
        But, like many processed meats, corned beef has a rather regal ancestor.
        The Irish Times
        5
        Lived chiefly on corned beef, tea, and marmalade, three times a day.
        A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba
        1
        All about us was a litter of corn beef cans and lager beer bottles.
        Nonsense Novels
        2
        But we had a little cocoa, tinned corn beef, condensed milk, butter and marmalade.
        New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening
        3
        We were sometimes furnished with fresh beef, corn beef, and sometimes with rice and vegetable soup.
        The Citizen-Soldier / or, Memoirs of a Volunteer
        4
        Like one I saw when Mac went into a shop to buy a tin of Australian corn beef.
        The ginger man
        5
        Vell, I t'ink about vot ve alwis eat, maybe corn beef and cabbage and sausage, und so weiter.
        Main Street
        Usage of bully beef in English
        1
        Also we were hungry, having had nothing but bully beef and biscuits.
        A Yankee in the Trenches
        2
        Bread, bully beef, and a drink of water out of their bottles.
        On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles
        3
        During this period, your rations consist of bully beef, biscuits, and water.
        "Over the Top," by an American Soldier Who Went / Together with ...
        4
        You'll have poor feedin' I'm afraid; biscuits and water and bully beef.
        The Firm of Girdlestone
        5
        The Belgian bully beef is drier and tougher than the English.
        Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
        6
        At Caterham a robin has built its nest in a bully beef tin.
        Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.
        7
        On foul water and bully beef he tramped through a land of plenty.
        The Great Boer War
        8
        I have eaten bully beef, which is a cooked and tinned beef, semi-gelatinous.
        Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
        9
        Or jam or butter or anything, except bully beef or Maconochie.
        A Yankee in the Trenches
        10
        There's a reason that bully beef (corned beef) has lasted so long.
        The South African
        11
        Our men gave them bread and biscuit and bully beef.
        Now It Can Be Told
        12
        During this time he only gets water, bully beef, and biscuits for his chow.
        "Over the Top," by an American Soldier Who Went / Together with ...
        13
        Meanwhile his carriers fell heartily to hungry men's rations of bully beef and millet-meal.
        Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
        14
        You are very close to getting your ass canned and sold for bully beef.
        Blood music
        15
        The cans of bully beef flew under his fingers.
        Three Soldiers
        16
        To-night I invented a new dish-anomelette made of scrambled eggs and minced bully beef.
        Letters from France
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