A thick slice of beef meat suitable for grilling, frying, or broiling.
Compound word: 'beef' (meat of cattle) + 'steak' (thin slice). The term emerged in English around the 1400s as a way to specify thickness of cut.
A beefsteak is meat with attitude—the word specifically means a thick-cut piece meant for individual diners, not thin slices, showing how we name foods by how we cook them.
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