side of beef

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   dressed half of a beef carcass

   Broaderside

   Partschuck

Questions about side of beef

What does side of beef mean?

side of beef means "dressed half of a beef carcass".

Is side of beef a common word?

side of 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.