corned beef

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   beef cured or pickled in brine

   Synonymsbully beefcorn beef

   Broaderbeef

Questions about corned beef

What does corned beef mean?

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

What is another word for corned beef?

Close synonyms include bully 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 corned beef a common word?

corned 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.