ground beef

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   beef that has been ground

   Synonymshamburger

   Broaderbeef

   Part ofhamburger

Questions about ground beef

What does ground beef mean?

ground beef means "beef that has been ground".

What is another word for ground beef?

Close synonyms include hamburger. 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 ground beef a common word?

ground 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.