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Home / Pidgin Dictionary / Like beef?

Like beef?

/LIKE BEEF/

Want to fight? Nothing to do with cattle.

"Beef" in pidgin means a fight, an argument, a confrontation. "You like beef?" is a challenge — "you want to fight about it?"

Examples

  • You like beef? (You want to fight?)
  • Like BEEF bra?
  • What bra, you like beef?

Origin

Pidgin English

Alternate spellings

You like beef, You like beef bra

fighting confrontation

Related phrases

False crack

To sucker-punch. Hit someone unexpectedly.

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