bully beef

1. 1.

   beef cured or pickled in brine

   Synonymscorned beefcorn beef

   Broaderbeef

Questions about bully beef

What does bully beef mean?

bully beef means "beef cured or pickled in brine".

What is another word for bully beef?

Close synonyms include corned beef, corn beef. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bully beef a common word?

bully beef is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.