roast beef
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I tell the waiter, 'We'll have two roast beefs, one well-done, the other medium rare.'"
- "But the cars & trucks held cartons of roast chickens, slabs of cheeses, loaves of bread, racks of hotdogs, case upon case of soft drinks, cases of bottled sparkling water, pies, cakes, roast beefs & baked hams."
- "No delicate little tidbits at these parties; there are buckets of shrimps and oysters, roast beefs and hams and tables of sweets with smiling corporate heads and their lobbyists to greet the guests."
- "Two or three times a week I had to deliver fifteen- or twenty-pound roast beefs to delis around the Bronx so that they could cook them and slice them up for sandwiches."
- "We had a freezer up until maybe two years ago. We used to pack a lot of roast beefs."
- "Because there, in the middle of the table, among the roast beefs on rolls,[…]"
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Wiktionary places this term in Food.