short ribs

1. 1.

   cut of beef containing rib ends near the sternum

   Broadercut of beef

Questions about short ribs

What does short ribs mean?

short ribs means "cut of beef containing rib ends near the sternum".

Is short ribs a common word?

short ribs 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.