beef vs stagger

beef

verb
  • To fail or mess up. 

  • To feud or hold a grudge against. 

  • To cry. 

  • To add weight or strength to. 

  • To fart; break wind. 

  • To complain. 

noun
  • A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with) 

  • The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat). 

  • Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency. 

  • Essence, content; the important part of a document or project. 

  • The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine. 

  • Bovine animals. 

  • Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset. 

  • A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat. 

adj
  • Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient. 

  • Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat. 

  • Producing or known for raising lots of beef. 

  • Beefy; powerful; robust. 

stagger

verb
  • To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail. 

  • To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate. 

  • To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam. 

  • In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter. 

  • To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. 

  • To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next. 

  • To schedule in intervals or at different times. 

  • To cause to reel or totter. 

noun
  • An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion. 

  • The spacing out of various actions over time. 

  • One who attends a stag night. 

  • The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another. 

  • Bewilderment; perplexity. 

  • The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners. 

  • A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling. 

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