corn beef

See also: corn-beef and cornbeef

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Lexicalization of a reduced pronunciation of corned beef with regular deletion of -d before b. Compare ice cream and mash potato.

Noun

corn beef (countable and uncountable, plural corn beefs)

  1. Alternative form of corned beef.
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