flank steak

1. 1.

   a cut of beef from the flank of the animal

   Broaderbeefsteak

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Questions about flank steak

What does flank steak mean?

flank steak means "a cut of beef from the flank of the animal".

Is flank steak a common word?

flank steak 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.