"beefsteak club" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: beefsteak clubs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} beefsteak club (plural beefsteak clubs)
  1. (historical) Any of a number of 18th- and 19th-century men's dining clubs in Britain and Australia that celebrated the beefsteak as a symbol of patriotic and often Whig concepts of liberty and prosperity. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-beefsteak_club-en-noun-EqyCgfS0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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