beefsteak

  1. Noun.  A steak cut from beef cattle.
  2. Noun.  The beefsteak plant, also known as perilla and shiso.
  3. Noun.  A beefsteak tomato.
  4. Noun.  A beefsteak mushroom.
  5. Noun.  (archaic) : A celebratory dinner, commonly held in New York between about 1870 and 1940 involving the consumption of enormous quantities of broiled steak and beer.

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